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THURSDAY: Oliver Twist. (1984) Alec Guinness and John Howard Davies in David Lean's adaptation of the Dickens classic make the recent "Oliver!" stick in your gulliver by comparison. With Anthony Newley as the Artful Dodger...
...grew up on this 314-acre estate in Saint-Nauphary, in southwestern France. The flourishing vineyards produced excellent wines, named for the estate, La Fumade. The baron married, had a son, and lived a life of rural gentility, trying none too skillfully to manage his estate, getting through the lean years with loans added to the mortgage. By the end of World War II, the baron's fortunes were as dilapidated as his estate; his wife and son were dead, the vineyards diseased. Then, in 1950, at the age of 66, the baron discovered and married an attractive young...
UMass did not specify whether students will be given part of the final say in these decisions. But the administration's effort to lean in this direction is worthy of notice by Harvard's prestigious faculty. At an ostensibly "off the record," public meeting last month, President Bok doubted whether students could beneficially contribute to Harvard's hiring policies. "Students might vote for some handsome, charismatic young teacher who may turn out to be a poor teacher and a poor academic by the time he is 50," the young, handsome, etc. Bok noted...
...lean ground beef...
...walked past Whangpoo Park, which until 1928 bore the sign, NO DOGS OR CHINESE ALLOWED. The main part of Chung Shan Road pulsates with exercisers: sword dancers, slow-motion shadowboxers practicing the ancient art of tai chi chuan, joggers, tumblers, wrestlers and a few elderly gentlemen who simply lean against a tree and let one leg swing free. The skilled performers draw a great collar of spectators around them. Study the faces. They are the young men and women of the new China, calm, well fed, drably dressed and always surprised at the sight of a foreigner. Only...