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Finally, orientation week concludes for good onSunday afternoon, when finelydressed first-yearsparade to a tea hosted by President Neil L.Rudenstine and Radcliffe President Linda S.Wilson. Brave students can introduce themselves toHarvard's head honchos. Or they can spend thefinal hours of the week playing one more round ofname game...
...school, Liverpool Institute, into a Fame- type training ground for the musically talented. When the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic asked him to help mark its 150th anniversary, he ventured into classical music and composed a 90-minute choral epic called Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio. It was a brave try for a man who doesn't read or write music. But it turned out to be strangely flat, a criticism that McCartney shrugs off. He was more worried that rock friends would think it "fruity...
...section man, ill at ease under the best circumstances, had no idea how to manage such a crisis and insisted we get down to business. some brave soul--was it Mary Butler? Ben White?--finally suggested that no one was in the mood for "Mother Courage," and we were dismissed...
...about stolen guns. The idea was to push the action to a level of excess where it turns parodistically comic, and this is done expertly. They've brought back Joe Pesci as a goofy cop buff, added Rene Russo as the love interest for Riggs -- a policewoman as crazily brave as he is -- and made a cheerfully amoral movie that cannily caters to and satirizes our passion for cinematic violence...
LIFE IN THE PARAPLEGIC WARD HASN'T changed much since Marlon Brando and friends first showed us around in The Men 42 years ago. The guys are still alternately bitter and brave, and they ultimately learn to bond with one another. Sex remains for them, of course, a scary and tragic issue. But if THE WATERDANCE has nothing new to say about its subject, at least it speaks in an engaging voice: soft, literate, modest. Probably because Neal Jimenez, its writer (and co-director with Michael Steinberg), is writing autobiographically, he is less concerned with melodramatic invention than...