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...only does this unique constraint provide the audience with moments of conspiratorial delight (we know, for example, that Robert has discovered the affair before Jerry knows), but it also invests the final, earliest scene with a sense of pathos that would be absent in a more traditional arranging of the play's events. This affair is, quite literally, doomed from the start, and the convincing passion which Ducey and Cottingham demonstrate in the play's final scenes elicits our sympathy in one of the play's few genuinely touching moments...
Thirty-five of last year's 88 Undergraduate Council representatives are running for reelection this year. The following is a list of the number of full meetings they missed. A fraction indicates the representative was absent for part of a meeting. (Members may be ejected from the assembly if they miss more than four of the weekly meetings in one semester.) The statistics were provided by the Undergraduate Council...
LANDSCAPE IN THE MIST. Greek director Theo Angelopoulos makes majestic visions out of spare images. In this metaphysical road movie, two children hike across Greece to find their absent father. A poignant but never sentimental view of childhood from a master of minimalism...
...years, the staff position is preoccupied with the environment, consumer issues and abortion rights--all of which merit attention, but which are nowhere near as pressing as the state's current fiscal crisis. A more thorough analysis of the candidates' plans to revive the sinking economy is conspicuously absent. Perhaps the inhabitants of the Ivory Tower have forgotten that thousands of people stand in unemployment lines while we attend classes...
...that is passing itself off as Spike Lee's latest work. It looks like a 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks production, and sometimes it even sounds like one. But the meaning, the sense of purpose, which pervaded School Daze and the brilliant Do the Right Thing are noticably absent...