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In Class, two trains to Harvard Square meet in the way station of Vernon Academy, an Illinois boys' prep school. The express arrives in the form of Square "Skip" Ellsworth Burroughs IV (Rob Lowe), an academy lifer who, well, the name says it all. But by senior year, the local...
And similarly throughout this "romantic comedy," the humor is very much divorced from the romance--a division that works to enhance both elements of the film. The tension between his boyish high school existence and his mature sexual involvement focuses Jonathan to reconcile his two halves; eventually he becomes both...
Bowie had taken his name, he once told the Novelist William S. Burroughs, because "I wanted a truism about cutting through lies." Not even Jim Bowie's renowned blade could have cut through the craziness that was surrounding Bowie now or even the tales that had been building up around...
What does not seem to have been greatly embellished is Bowie's own narrative of his meandering into overindulgence. He evolved a new character called the Thin White Duke. He released David Live in 1974 with a cadaverous cover that prompted the subject himself to remark, "That record should have...
The IBM management formula worked so well that the company in the 1960s came to be known as Snow White while its competitors were derisively dubbed the Seven Dwarfs. The dwarfs (Burroughs, Univac, NCR, Control Data, Honeywell, General Electric and RCA) dwindled to five when GE and RCA quit the...