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...Innocence. Movies, and movie critics, so regularly champion the audacious, the reckless, the most, that an achievement like Martin Scorsese's & with this impeccable adaptation of an Edith Wharton novel may be overlooked. The plot brings together a gentle man (Daniel Day-Lewis) and a worldly woman (Michelle Pfeiffer). But the true subject is reticence, its charms and perils -- the mannerly, orderly life that most of us try to live. Tiptoeing through the plush parlors of old Manhattan, the film finds ecstasy in the kissing of a lady's wrist, and heartbreak in a sigh. This, then, is Scorsese...
...you”? It’s a funny one. Erroneous interpretations of reality, the phrase suggests, proclivities for the idealized or the fictitious, can threaten our safety, happiness, or otherwise get the best of us. Take, for example, if at this very meal I had foreseen myself a champion eater and ingested 150 popcorn shrimp. Bad idea. But here is the beauty of writing: on paper, in words, imagination has free reign. The untrue or hypothetical can withstand trial, cannot get the best of you, and folly is permitted. In the spirit of imagination, then, of Wonka-esque creative...
...rider for five years and is the granddaughter of a race organizer, daughter of an engineer and widow of a rider who died in a 1979 crash. In the years following the accident, she married Barry and went to work as the public relations manager for American motorcycle race champion Randy Mamola, 45. In 1986 Mamola decided to lend some of his considerable prestige and fund-raising ability to charitable work. "Randy wanted to help children," says Andrea, 58, "and we wanted those children to be in Africa...
...Princeton Chase in Princeton, N.J., yesterday, the second major fall head event for both teams. The Crimson varsity lightweights improved upon last week’s eighth-place finish at the Head of the Charles Regatta with a fourth-place showing yesterday. Last year’s champion, Harvard started first and clocked a 13:42.80 time over the 2.75 mile course, finishing 0.33 seconds behind defending national champion Yale (13:42.33). Penn (13:37.19) and Navy (13:41.24) were the top two finishers in the lightweight eight event. The Crimson junior varsity eight took 14th in a time...
...other plays, irony emerges in “Finding Their Guitar,” as the hero strives to become the champion of an art accessible to anyone with enough imagination, and the play’s idealism effectively strikes a poignant chord in audiences. Yet this irony also suggests a certain democracy present at the core of the show: that anyone with enough creativity and enthusiasm can make their artistic dreams a reality. These playwrights have done an admirable job with that freedom...