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...Movies don't change. Ellie Andrews (Claudette Colbert) is still a rich, spoiled heiress with a daddy problem who thinks she wants to marry a phony named King Westley, an "aviator" who arrives for their wedding by landing on Daddy's sumptuous lawn in an autogyro. Peter Warne (Clark Gable), an unemployed newspaperman and wisecracking paragon, rescues Ellie from the phonies at the last moment and bears her away to the true America, for a honeymoon in a roadside motor camp in Michigan...
...Happened One Night dances charmingly along the fence between lark and allegory. It is, among other things, a dissertation on what it means to be an American phony. King Westley--"the pill of the century," as Gable says, a cafe society parasite with the face of a small reptile--wants to marry Ellie for her money and in the end accepts a bribe of $100,000 to go away. King's narcissistic autogyro is a sort of 1930s version of the Osprey, or of those personal motor-scooters-of-the-air that the writer James Fallows envisioned...
...being done with great success. Some schools in affluent communities: I was just at the Calvert School in Baltimore a few weeks ago, which is a private school that has children who come from wealthy families. And I have also been to Harvest Elementary School in Minneapolis and Westley Elementary School in Houston, which are schools in poorer neighborhoods where the same kind of research-based instruction is having a great impact on kids' learning, and they are great success stories. One of the things I've been impressed by in Texas that Governor Bush has spoken out very strongly...
According to H. Westley Clark, director of the center for substance abuse treatment, a federal government program, this generation of college students is "under no greater or lesser risk" of falling prey to the risks of drinking...
...unknown prevents people from visits to the MAC, with its collection of monstrous pre-Jurassic machines. The nautilus room, at first glance, seems a more effective torture chamber than any the fictional Prince Humperdink ever dreamed up. In fact, the "life sucking torture machine" to which our hero Westley is subjected springs to mind when I think of the MAC weight room...