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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With center Crawford Palmer, the Duke transfer,having played out his one-year wonder tour of theIvy League, Dartmouth once again has a hole in themiddle. Freshmen big men Chris Butler and BiranGilpin could provide help, but Coach Dave Faucherremains cautious...

Author: By Peter K. Han, | Title: A Done Deal: Penn | 11/13/1993 | See Source »

...Crimson's hopes revolve around 6'1" junior forward/center Tammy Butler, Harvard's sleek version of former Olympian Cheryl Miller. A first team All-Ivy selection as a sophomore, Butler finished last season third in Ivy scoring (16.1), second in rebounding (11.4), and fifth in field goal percentage (.538). She will be the focal point of the offense, and her skills are perfectly suited for a wide-open game...

Author: By Mayer Bick, | Title: New, Wide-Open Offense Paces Cagewomen Attack | 11/13/1993 | See Source »

...least of these difficulties is the fact that the novel is narrated in the first person. At the beginning of both film and novel, Mr. Stevens (Anthony Hopkins), a butler at Darlington Hall, is about to begin a road trip about England. This physical journey is from the start linked to a spiritual quest. The narrator of the book, Mr. Stevens, does not intend to wander aimlessly about the country; rather, he embarks on a pilgrimage, resolved to restore Miss Kenton (Emma Thompson), the former housekeeper at Darlington Hall, to her erstwhile position. He hardly even concerns himself with...

Author: By Bernadette A. Meyler, | Title: Of Lords and Lost Glory | 11/11/1993 | See Source »

...novel, the first-person narrative unifies present and past and a multiplicity of minor incidents associated only through the consciousness of the butler. In the film, the narrator ha been removed, and only tenuous narrative coherence remains; the attempts made to integrate the various episodes into the film are sometimes rather artificial. On occasion, when a scene from the past is introduced, an image appears in the center of the screen, and gradually assumes the foreground, almost emerging from behind the prior picture; at other times, a voice-over of a letter written either from Mr. Stevens to Miss Kenton...

Author: By Bernadette A. Meyler, | Title: Of Lords and Lost Glory | 11/11/1993 | See Source »

...friend the English actor Julian Fellowes had passed along this comment about a good butler: When he's in the room, the room is emptier. "I took that," Hopkins says, "and kept it in my head for the entire film. It was simple: just stand still." So much of the comedy in his role, and the sadness, arise from this stillness. Before a hunt, Stevens holds a drinking cup for a horseman; the aristocrat takes no notice of his offer, and the butler takes no notice of the slight. His stillness may mask sexual fear: when Miss Kenton amiably approaches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Still Life of Anthony Hopkins | 11/8/1993 | See Source »

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