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...prequels, the teenaged girls who watched and re-watched “Titanic” with their friends, and the office workers gathered around the water cooler all illustrate the social importance of the blockbuster; though the form may fall in and out of favor, it is too socially vital to ever go extinct...
...light-saber epic changed Lucas too. A graduate of the USC film school who also felt a kinship with Bruce Conner, Scott Bartlett and other members of San Francisco?s vital avant-garde scene, he had made two features before Star Wars. In 1971 he hatched the stainless-steel-cool, THX138 -a project received by its sponsors at Warner Bros. with so much bafflement and meddling that it stirred in Lucas a resolve to be a truly independent filmmaker. In 1973 he moved to the middle with American Graffiti, a feel-good blast of instant-nostalgia (it re-imagined...
...interests of the children whom the charity helps. In this case, the empirical facts are too compelling to ignore. It would be simply unjust to condemn these many children to the instability of foster homes because of a clash of values between the Church and state with, though vital, fewer tangible effects...
...with no privacy. It is in the best interest of the country to maintain some degree of privacy amongst its citizens. According to the Bush administration, the Patriot Act has been crucial in protecting Americans from falling victim to terrorist attacks. President Bush says that the legislation has been vital in detecting terrorist cells and squelching plots of attack. And to be fair, the new legislation is not without its bright spots. Those subpoenaed under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, for example, for library, medical, and computer records, may now challenge a gag order in court. But the legislation renews...
...chief among the reasons why undergraduates are so devoid of a broad historical narrative in which to situate the little nuggets of ephemera they receive from the hodgepodge of Harvard history classes. It’s this condition that makes History 10a’s mission is more vital today than ever before...