Word: vision
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then one confronts not a gimmicky variant on a formula but a chilling experience called River's Edge. Tim Hunter, who directed Tex and co-wrote Over the Edge, movies about angry and isolated young men, may not have dealt with an alienated group before, but his vision of small-town American life is remarkably consistent. He works only in gray tones. The sun never shines on his world of ranchette homes and convenience stores. Adults exist only as malevolent authority figures...
...with exemplary restraint by Keanu Reeves, does finally violate their conspiracy and makes a tentative connection with traditional morality. But by this time the cold of this brave and singular work has seeped into our bones. We know that Matt is the exception to a bleak and deeply disturbing vision of adolescent life...
...private luncheon and a Kennedy School panel discussion on Kennedy's vision of public service will complete...
Kennedy School Dean Graham T. Allison '62 has also announced a program of four public service intiatives to mark the anniversary and to reaffirm the school's commitment to President Kennedy's vision of public service...
...some Reaganites, almost any action in pursuit of the President's vision was justified; for them, it was not a Government of laws, but of one man. Oliver North, for one, did not seem willing to let anything, even Congress, stand in the way of serving his Commander in Chief...