Word: worth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only for its beautiful and effective interweaving of visuals and dialogue, the film is well worth seeing. But more than just a "pretty movie," Pelle the Conqueror is one that engages the viewer in an emotionaly wrenching and intriguing story. It is certainly worthy of the many awards it has recieved-and more...
...prance and pun their way into your heart--if you can spare the $15-$17.50 ticket price. Men making fools out of themselves in this burlesque show carry on a Harvard tradition as outmoded as final clubs and Radcliffe college. But these vestiges of the past are still worth visiting at least once during your time here--to understand how far the rest of the school has evolved...
...obligatory Wellesley and Hasty Pudding cracks are worth passing over, but Dartmouth is hit with a few zingers. Amanda Pleasme delivers the finest: "We'll get more worked up than a Dartmouth man in a petting...
...unbelievable," says a high-ranking savings and loan executive. So goes the industry's scuttlebutt these days about Robert Bass's takeover in December of the crippled American Savings & Loan of Stockton, Calif. In one of the sweetest deals ever bankrolled with taxpayer money, the intensely private Fort Worth billionaire, 40, stands to benefit hugely from a decade of regulatory laxity. His purchase of American Savings is the pre-eminent episode in a string of controversial bailouts last year in which regulators handed out gilt-edged gratuities to some of America's richest...
...problem of cultural illiteracy among American students. Beginning next month, his Knoxville-based Whittle Communications firm will beam Channel One, a slick news program for teenagers, directly into schools for a seven-week test period. Whittle has provided each of the six pilot schools with $50,000 worth of television sets and satellite equipment to use as they wish. The only requirement: each day students will have to watch a twelve-minute Channel One broadcast -- including two minutes...