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...Michael Pitt (the young American in Bertolucci's The Believers) incarnates Blake, the Cobain character, as a stumbling junkie whose monologues are often incomprehensible; we got a hint of their meaning only by reading the French subtitles. He trudges through the woods, swats imagined flies, collapses against doors. One exasperated woman asks him, "Do you say, 'I'm sorry that I'm a rock-and-roll cliche'?" Van Sant and Pitt aren't sorry. They embrace the standard version of the pop star as lost boy, doomed poet; Blake is a rock Rimbaud. At the end he dies...
...Occasionally these stoned tableaux are lightened by intrusions of real-world comedy: the visit of a Yellow Pages ad salesman to a stoned Blake; the door-to-door missionary zeal of two young Mormons. Ricky Jay provides a few moments of irrelevant coherence with his story of a magician named Chung Ling Su. But these interludes can't bring Last Days to life. The film is so studied and self-conscious that the audience can never concentrate on Blake; it can only watch the camera watching...
...Gala, Brad Terwepner and Blake Hamilton—each of whom the Crimson will likely see again—combined to hold Harvard to only four earned runs in 3-1 and 2-1 Harvard victories...
...obsessiveness, Blumenthal created a circle of foodie physicists and chemists and applied their wisdom to the kitchen. Barham exposed him to lab-equipment catalogs. Tom Coultate, a retired food biochemist from South Bank University, explained advanced gelling agents (used in the restaurant's tea, almond and quail jellies). Anthony Blake, a vice president of Firmenich, a Swiss fragrance and flavor company, was most influential. "The first time I went to Geneva," says Blumenthal, "Tony showed me thousands of flavor molecules and extracts in little jars. I was in heaven...
DIED. Eugene Carson Blake, 78, eminent American liberal churchman who as chief executive of a Presbyterian denomination (1951-66), president of the National Council of Churches (1954-57) and general secretary of the World Council of Churches (1966-72) used his salesman's savvy, administrator's organizing skills and diplomat's doggedness in a lifelong quest for union among Christians; of complications from diabetes; in Stamford, Conn. He strove to enlist his church in the fight for civil rights, and in 1960 he proposed the unification of the Methodist, Episcopal and Presbyterian churches and the United Church of Christ, arguing...