Word: case
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Gittes' haunting memories are revived while working on a case for the film's other Jake, real estate developer Jake Berman (Harvey Keitel). Gittes is hired to procure evidence to prove that Berman's wife, Kitty (Meg Tilly) is having an affair. Gittes taps a motel room and arranges to have Berman confront his wife in bed with her lover...
...merely a reflection of conditions around him, colored by his own personality. Others, however, strongly support Hume's greatness on the ground that the force of his personality definitely affected the age in which he lived. It is not a question of the cart before the horse in either case, merely the old problem of which came first, the chicken or the egg. In any case, there is much to be said on both sides...
...that today's divisive ideological issues are not always tomorrow's. Ten years from now, with Bush long gone, who knows what the hot buttons will be? What the Senate should explore is the creativity and intellectual distinction of a nominee, not how he would vote on a specific case next week. Unfortunately, those are the kind of questions that may never be asked...
Last week the French President's office released an official communique stating that doctors had detected a mild case of low blood sugar and low blood pressure during Mitterrand's twice-yearly checkup. But rumors persist that the full extent of Mitterrand's mysterious malady has yet to be disclosed. According to a well-placed official, Mitterrand travels with dialysis and transfusion equipment and received one blood transfusion during his Florida visit...
Methods are eclectic at the Concordia villages, but real back-and-forth conversation is the first goal. Credit students learn their case endings and irregular verbs, but clowning around, even at the advanced level, keeps scholars fresh and interested. Students stage ridiculous dining-hall skits in their new languages and prove that you can't be self-conscious speaking Spanish while dressed like half an elephant. Everyone sings almost without stop: nonsense songs; protest songs; "rocken roll," as they say in Norway; and anthems celebrating a "world without walls," which has been the villages' global theme since the dismantling...