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Jimmy Carter, Ford replied testily: "Because I'm President until January 20." The statehood surprise surely reflected the familiar predicament of a lame-duck Chief Executive whose desire to deepen his mark in history is matched only by his loss of real power. That was evident, too, in a flurry of other last-minute moves by the President...
...Messerschmitt and Italian Macchi MC-202. So is the old workhorse of World War II-and beyond-the DC-3. Said one former combat pilot, standing before a full-scale diorama of aerial combat with a B-17 under attack: "It's so real that you want to duck the chin gunner. Wait'll the kids see this." Another veteran who flew over Europe said wistfully as he viewed the empty aircraft: "I see faces. The faces of those who didn't come back." There is still more. A rather unnerving audio-visual display of how modern...
This year audiences had better duck and hold their ears because just about every conflict but the War of Jenkins' Ear will be playing at the neighborhoods. Leading the attack is Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola's epic about the Viet Nam War itself. Loosely based on Joseph Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness, Apocalypse is about a mad Green Beret commander, played by Marlon Brando, who wages his own war in a remote Vietnamese province. Shooting in the jungles of the Philippines has been rather hellish for the cast-which also includes Robert Duvall and Martin...
Here are some others we liked: It's a Wonderful Life (Capra, 1946); Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick, 1964); Duck Soup (Leo McCarey, 1933); The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972); Mean Streets (Martin Scorcese, 1974); Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955); The Adventures of Robin Hood (Michael Curtiz, 1935; The Man on the Flying Trapeze (Charles Bogel, 1935); Swing Time (George Stevens, 1937); Dodsworth (William Wyler, 1935; and the Road to Utopia (you've got us, with Hope and Crosby...
...draws a distinction between this report and a task force report such as the core curriculum group's. Whereas the core curriculum task force recognized that the general education system is failing, and was not afraid to offend the program's constituents, the college life task force preferred to duck the master problem altogether. Instead of addressing the fact that some masters are not performing their jobs adequately, the group simply asks that a new master's handbook be issued. Instead of trying to solve the problem of not being able to get or maintain top-flight masters, the report...