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...Henry James's notoriously dense novel and brings its melodramatic and erotic undertones to the forefront. A well-bred but impoverished English girl (Helena Bonham-Carter), secretly engaged to an equally impecunious journalist (Linus Roache), persuades her lover to pay court to a young American heiress dying of TB (Alison Elliott). The plot thickens as the three take a pleasure trip to Venice. The scenes in Italy are lovely, and the three stars give superb performances--especially Bonham-Carter, who brilliantly captures the complexities of her character...

Author: By Lynn Y. Lee, | Title: Brevitas | 12/5/1997 | See Source »

...since joined Group X, a program started in the Cobb County school system in 1993 in which students meet on a semiregular basis and discuss race. Some 450 students are signed up. The meetings, held in groups of about 20, can get emotional. At a recent session, Alison Garcia, 12, stood up, tears in her eyes, and exclaimed, "All Hispanics are not dumb! You don't know me. My father and my uncle were part of the Cherokee tribe, and my uncle had the highest scores in school." Says Gullatte: "What the Group X project did was help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KIDS AND RACE | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

That's right, there's a love plot, and an underdeveloped one at that. The writers have taken Mandy Nichols (Alison Eastwood, Clint's daughter), a relatively minor character in the book, and turned her into a nubile tart for Kelso to romance. You can almost hear the producers saying, "Let's get some old-fashioned heterosexual love into this story...

Author: By Scott E. Brown, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Midnight' in the Garden of Good and Eastwood | 11/21/1997 | See Source »

...James's notoriously dense novel, this film brings its melodramatic and erotic undertones to the forefront. A well-bred but impoverished English girl (Helena Bonham-Carter), secretly engaged to an equally impecunious journalist (Linus Roache), persuades her lover to pay court to a young American heiress dying of TB (Alison Elliott). The plot thickens as the three take a pleasure trip to Venice. The close-up cinematography brings out the superb performances of the three stars--especially Bonham-Carter, who brilliantly captures her character's complexities...

Author: By Lynn Y. Lee, | Title: The Wings of the Dove | 11/21/1997 | See Source »

...Those two three-pointers were part of a trifecta by the Crimson's senior guards during the late-half run which perfectly illustrated Harvard's versatility of weapons. While Janowski excelled in the key, co-captain Megan Basil (eight points, two assists, three steals), Alison Seanor (nine points, six rebounds, three assists, three steals, two blocks) and Sarah Brandt (seven points, two steals) each drained a shot from behind the are to effectively put Army away...

Author: By Eduardo Perez-giz, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Women's Cagers Bully West Point Cadets, 75-47 | 11/17/1997 | See Source »

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