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...Edzard, not content with physical accessibilit, seeks to render As You Like It more intell normally accessible too, by setting it in the modern day. Her contemporary analogy, while imaginatively filmed and well acted, does not fit Shakespeare's play--by using an analogy at all, no matter how apt, she mistakes the reason why Shakespeare doesn't normally attract mass audiences nowadays...

Author: By Edward P. Mcbride, | Title: Movie Not As Shakespeare Liked It | 3/24/1994 | See Source »

...when all else and, there is Jeanne Moreau's voice. At one point, the film's narrator tells the audience that "the month that [Catherine and Jim] spent together was graven in their memories by a multitude of small but perfect details.' There could not be a more apt description of the two hours that one spends with "Jules...

Author: By Joel VILLASENOR Ruiz, | Title: `Jules and Jim' a Jewel | 3/17/1994 | See Source »

...thought and thought and couldn't quite come up with an appropriate and entertaining topic for the tenth of March. It's a limbo period--with winter pretty much over and spring not quite yet here (not to mention midterms)--so, with our usual penchant for apt weather comparisons, we thought of the ever-fascinating topic of spying. (And gossip, which is Harvard's equivalent of this noble institution, but that comes later...

Author: By Jc & Nhl, | Title: The CIA | 3/10/1994 | See Source »

Like the never-ending snowfalls which announce themselves just as we think winter is finally over, Aldrich Ames hits the press to remind us that the Cold War is not so distant a memory (apt comparison, no? We think so.). Of course, we all know he's being set up, but that doesn't stop the story from being far more interesting and revealing than Whitewater. Give the scandal a rest, guys...

Author: By Jc & Nhl, | Title: The CIA | 3/10/1994 | See Source »

...soldier in the Fruit of Islam, the Nation's security force and training vehicle for young men, Farrakhan proved an apt disciple. He became head of the temple in Boston and then, after Malcolm X left, temple head in New York City. By the early 1960s he was prominent in the urban black community. White Americans did not notice him until two decades later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Louis Farrakhan: Pride and Prejudice | 2/28/1994 | See Source »

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