Word: sorting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the year-end goal for Geneva is totally arbitrary. But he maintains that Middle East diplomacy had been stalled for so long that some calendar goal, however artificial, was necessary if the peacemaking momentum was ever to be resumed. Says Vance: "You have to try to set some sort of target that would make people realize that they can't keep putting off these problems...
...realize that clubs are not the only manifestation of elitism at Harvard and that all of us lead some sort of cloistered existence. However, this does not excuse the clubs--it merely increases their symbolic content...
...since the days of An American in Paris, Leslie Caron plays a middle-aged Russian star on the decline, who dreams of sharing top billing with the new sensation of Hollywood. Her performance betrays the length of her absence from movies; in a role that calls for an eccentric sort, Caron fails to discriminate between the passionate and the hammy. Her performance deteriorates into a caricature of The Beautiful People of that period. Michelle Phillips passes for the leading lady in Valentino, but not very well. At first, she greets Valentino's Latin love with a mixture of nonchalance...
...little nose-thumbing. In addition to the nickname sham, Dartmouth for years has been nothing short of paranoid that the school is not considered one of the "Big 3" of the Ivy League. They've done everything up there: added a soft ice cream machine, went sort of coed, even as far as moving the cows that supply the school's dairy products out of the basketball arena...
...selfishness, jealousy, and fear; in the second act, the theme is greed, selfishness, jealousy, and fear; in the third act...you get the idea. There's very little variation or development, with the result that what ought to be a wrenching death-struggle is merely interesting in a nasty sort of way. And when everyone is so intriguingly abnormal, it's hard to identify with anyone enough to become emotionally involved...