Word: 80s
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Like the best science fiction, Strange Invaders is also social satire - in this case, on the very '80s belief that style is content, that anyone wearing or talking in the wrong fashion must be as odd as outer space. By slapping the two decades to gether (in Susanna Moore's knowing decor and costumes), Strange Invaders exposes the banalities and excesses of the popular art they produced. The classy cast (Paul LeMat, Louise Fletcher, Nancy Allen, Diana Scarwid) plays it deadpan but without a hint of derision, and coaxes the movie toward a full-throttle inspirational climax...
Klitgaard sums up Harvard's changing role: "In the '60s, the idea was that we had the magic and they had the needs. In the '80s, it's much more of a two-way street." He adds that now, whenever he goes abroad. "I always come back to this country with new materials...
...more direct and issue if in more removed." Klitguard says that "His export of the '80s in the training to solve problem, rather than the solutions themselves...
...shift at Harvard apparently reflects a national trend of the `80s,the Agency for International Development (AID), the federal government's for foreign assistance, has grown with capital development projects--such is said, dam and hospital building. Instead, in his increasingly favored training programs in areas such as business management as well as grants that bring foreign students to the U.S. to study, says Walter A. Grady, an AID spokesman. "We've shied away from capital developments because we've learned the lesson that they don't really benefit the poor...
...general, the programs have been accepted, and through trial and error. Harvard in the '80s has settled on curricular advice as the export that will best aid developing nations. Despite the University's tendency to be low-key--using individual contacts, and restricting advice to already existing institutions or to short-term seminars--the requests from developing nations keep flooding...