Word: benning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That totaled $800,000 for the senate to dole out to student groups last year, according to Ben Azoff, treasurer of the senate...
Team U.S.A. Coach Ben Smith '68 did not bring his collegiate players to Montreal. A.J. Mleczko '99 and her teammates are spending the season in residence at Lake Placid, gearing up for 2002. That means sophomore defenseman Angela Ruggiero of Harvard, goaltender Sara DeCosta of Providence, defenseman Tara Mounsey of Brown and center Jenny Schmidgall of UMD are not missing their college games...
...somehow that doesn't matter. Neither does the fact that Levinson packs his movie with more melodrama--including Little Melvin's kidnapping of Ben and Sylvia from an early rock concert--than you would think it could hold. What's important is the casual, even digressive, movement of the piece. It plays like a memoir, not a conventional three-act movie. There's room here for Ben to shock his family by dressing as Hitler for Halloween, for a faux-naive stripper to electrify Nate's theater, for the strange power of a new-model Cadillac to cloud the mind...
Like the film's Ben Kurtzman, the young Barry Levinson thought the white bread he ate at a Gentile home was raw. ("Ours was always toasted!") Like Ben's father, his dad sneaked out of the temple on Rosh Hashanah to check out the new Cadillacs. But Levinson, 57, believes his film is more than simple nostalgia. "We have all these hate crimes today--the gay slaying in Wyoming, the man dragged to death in Texas, the shootings at schools." So, he says, what happened in Baltimore in 1954 is still sadly pertinent today...
...million Total take for Ben-Hur, 1959's most popular movie...