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Gardner concentrates particularly on three individuals: a priest, a healer, and a fairly eccentric distributor of sacred fire. Keeping them straight, however, presents a somewhat difficult task--an almost unavoidable weakness in preserving the integrity of the cinema verite.

Author: By Deborah E. Copaken, | Title: Gardner's Forest | 12/12/1985 | See Source »

This weakness, however, is counterbalanced by Gardner's brilliant application of the cinema verite technique. Forest of Bliss lays bare a Benares we would see and experience had we been there. We are bombarded by sights and sounds: street noise, the silence of the river, the knelling of bells. We...

Author: By Deborah E. Copaken, | Title: Gardner's Forest | 12/12/1985 | See Source »

YET THE ARGUMENT'S weakness should not be allowed to undermine the need for of benefits from affirmative action. Affirmative action in education holds out a promise of considerable value: not to repay past ills, but to build a faith in education in the Black community, without which any lasting...

Author: By Emil E. Parker, | Title: Reaffirming Affirmative Action | 12/3/1985 | See Source »

BERGER CLEARLY ADMIRES the resource restorers he writes about, and the admiration is merited. These people have struggled long and hard and have rejuvenated ecosystems to show for their efforts. Yet the most noticable weakness in his accounts is a tendency to portray his subjects with overly lavish admiration. His...

Author: By John Ross, | Title: Saving the World From Itself | 12/3/1985 | See Source »

When the teams take to the air today, it will be strength against strength and weakness against weakness.

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Ivy Title on the Line as Harvard Meets Penn | 11/16/1985 | See Source »

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