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...UNESCO is trying to raise $15 million to save the ruin (Greece has already pledged $5 million of the total). To launch the fund-raising drive, UNESCO's director-general, the Senegalese classicist and art historian Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow, climbed the Acropolis and issued a warning. "After resisting the onslaughts of weather and human assailants for 2,400 years," he cried, "this magnificent monument, on which Ictinus and Phidias left the imprint of their genius, is threatened with destruction as a result of the damage which industrial civilization has increasingly inflicted...
...exams would assuage some of the tension that always arises during this time. The atmosphere couldn't be any crazier than what exists every night in Harvard's libraries--believe me, when Hilles is full you know something's up. As things stand now, the menace of finals can ruin a vacation; and even worse, when exams finally end we are denied a significant respite from our labors by having to return to the same academic grind that we just finished...
...most successful cartel in world history, but by week's end tempers had cooled a bit. It became clear that the pricing rupture probably does not signal the end of OPEC. Yamani denied rumors that Saudi Arabia would quit the cartel, which would surely have meant its ruin. He also played down earlier threats that Saudi Arabia, already by far OPEC's biggest producer (8.4 million bbl. per day), would substantially expand output in order to undermine the higher prices of the opposing eleven. The radical Libyans, who are among the Saudis' bitterest rivals, were relieved...
Cinderella's charmed evening is fated to end in disgrace, however. Her enemies engineer her election as prom queen, only to ruin her moment of triumph by dousing their unsuspecting victim with a vat of blood--an especially cruel reminder of the scene in the showers. DePalma has obviously deemed this moment as the climax of the film; he drags the viewer through an agonizing five-minute sequence shot entirely in slow motion. Discordant violin strains accompany the doomed couple as they ascend to the stage. The glow of Carrie's face pains us all the more as the camera...
...Little Red Riding Hood who looks only at the nightcap and thinks that it's her grandmother," says Italy's urbane Premier Giulio Andreotti. "But at the same time, I am not so reckless as to throw oil on the fire and ruin everything." Metaphorical mixture aside, such political caution and practicality explain how Christian Democrat Andreotti, 57, has managed for the past four months to keep a weak one-party government in power, primarily propped up by the "benevolent abstention" in Parliament of a strong Communist Party...