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...genius is in demonstrating how Prior himself uses affectations to take on the world, an effort made all the more poignant by his persuasive bursts of anger and resentment. Augustine's fussy accent and flying hands do not always work so well. At times, his Roy Cohn resembles Woody Allen's nastiest, mightiest older brother, but he does bring Cohn's despotic intelligence and fierce defensiveness vividly to life...

Author: By Nicholas K. Davis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Heaven on Stage | 11/14/1997 | See Source »

...Cambridge resident reported that a male wearing a black and white Halloween mask pulled her out of her 1995 Mitsubishi Gallant in front of 57 Bishop Allen Drive and drove off in her vehicle...

Author: By Courtney A. Coursey, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Log of Police Activity | 11/12/1997 | See Source »

...makes the decline easy to swallow and lends credibility to the wisdom of staying happy and staying in stocks or, as the little guy did Tuesday, buying even more. "There is no reason to think the U.S. stock market is going to go into a bear market," says economist Allen Sinai at Primark Decision Economics. "The U.S. economy is not going to be knocked down by the crisis in Asia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STILL ON A ROLL? | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

...lingered exclusively in Edwardiana; curiosity drives her into many movie landscapes. She is splendid as the impatient girlfriend of penniless poet Richard E. Grant in a lovely new film of George Orwell's Keep the Aspidistra Flying. She has played Marina Oswald (the TV movie Fatal Deception), Woody Allen's selfish wife (in Mighty Aphrodite), Sister Clare to Mickey Rourke's Francis of Assisi (no, really, in the 1989 Francesco), a French-speaking fashion designer (Portraits Chinois), a bachelor-party stripper (the BBC's Dancing Queen) and a scrubwoman who lops off vital parts of her deceased loved ones--tongue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: ALL HAIL TO HELENA! | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

...talented Ang Lee has directed this film about uneasy family relationships in the restless, promiscuous culture of the 70s with crystalline precision. As the leaders of two archly funny but distrurbingly bleak surburban clans, Kevin Kline, Joan Allen and Sigourney Weaver give refreshingly honest performances, but the film's ending sadly offers their characters no hint of redemption. The ice storm in this film, as a natural symbol of change and the wiping away of sins, is like Noah's flood without the rainbow...

Author: By Erwin R. Rosinberg, | Title: The Ice Storm | 11/7/1997 | See Source »

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