Word: statements
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Allen's new movie, Manhattan, and to put the matter simply, he is the mainspring of a masterpiece that is that perfect blending of style and substance, humor and humanity that his friends and followers were convinced he would one day make. It is also a rare summarizing statement, at once assured and vulnerable, in which an artist casts a selective eye over the fantastical life of his times and shapes his observations into an unsparing, compassionate, always witty and radically moral narrative. Tightly constructed, clearly focused intellectually, it is a prismatic portrait of a time and place that...
...that statement, all the strands he has so carefully laid out in this movie come together. Visually, and with glorious help from an often ironically used Gershwin score, he has turned Manhattan, which is one of Allen's passions, into a dream city, deliberately contrasting the awesome aspirations implicit in its construction with the distracted lives he sees taking place in it. He says: "There's no center to the culture. We have this opulent, relatively well-educated culture, and yet we see a great city like New York deterioriate. We see people lose themselves in drugs because they...
...been the main lobbying group for Afro-American Studies on campus, reacted bitterly to the proposed program. "The Afro-American Studies program, as now conceived by the University, is so far from what Black students envisioned as to be no program in Afro-American Studies at all," an Afro statement said the next...
...Harvard Corporation said in a statement issued last April that it would not hold non-voting investments in banks that make loans to the South African government but stated it would retain its common stock and influence corporate practices in South Africa as a shareholder. J.L.T...
There is a certain irony in the University's avid solicitation of funds from students whom it has patronized and ignored in the past. But seniors should not underestimate the seriousness of the appeal or the opportunity for an effective statement that it provides. The Corporation understands the language of money very well, much better than it seems to understand the language of "reasoned debate...