Word: gettingness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Peter Valentine, a tenant in a Blanche St. building slated for demolition by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), told the council that "if you are concerned about getting a grip on the selfish and expansionistic policies of Harvard and MIT, this is one way to do it."
So declared Jimmy Carter last week in his annual Economic Report to Congress. For a President plunging into an election year, the message was unprecedentedly candid: a 183-page catalogue of woes, pain and frustration that contained a frank admission that the nation was heading into a recession. It also...
Last month Iran expelled about 90 U.S. reporters, photographers and technicians. An Iranian official thought the action might quiet American tempers and "help the situation as a whole." Certainly it's some relief to be spared the nightly sight of camera-conscious Tehran mobs who seem to have nothing...
Says Nogler, "You must remember that he comes from a quiet place with a natural rhythm. He is still getting used to the new milieu."
But what finally betrays the film is a redemptive ending. Having spent almost two hours getting Julian into a tight corner, Schrader cannot bear to leave him there. The picture ends with a cockamamie implication that love will conquer all -even the false, but seemingly airtight, murder rap. Such a...