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...Harvard that is being celebrated this week was essentially the creation of Charles William Eliot about a century ago. An austere and high-minded man who suffered deeply from having a large, liver-colored birthmark across his right cheek, Eliot was a chemistry professor of such limited talents that when he applied for a vacant chair, the post was given to another man. Crushed, Eliot went to Europe, where he was deeply impressed by the German university system. America, he wrote, must develop "a system of education based chiefly upon the pure and applied sciences, the living European languages...
...imaginative directing of Serban, who returns this season to direct Sweettable at the Richelieu, the set by Michael Yeargan and the original, Chinese-tinted music by Elliot Goldenthal have combined for a perfect blend of the comically tongue-in-cheek, hip, innocent and wise...
...more than 70 feature films. Its purely TV offerings have appeared more spottily in this country, but the sampling has been impressive. The Price, for example, is a suspense thriller that transcends its genre by an uncompromising, morally complex examination of the characters involved; 26 Bathrooms, a tongue-in-cheek tour of lavish and eccentric British lavatories, is the sort of loopy project one could never imagine on American TV. Though much of Channel 4's comedy does not travel well, Consuela, a 40-min. film directed by Stephen Frears (My Beautiful Laundrette), is a neat, funny parody of Hitchcock...
...that also features Martin in other roles: co-writer (with Singer-Songwriter Randy Newman, who provides four songs for the three sometime mariachis), executive producer and even fancy rope twirler. Which one gets the senorita? Chase, for one, would say only, "I think I get a peck on the cheek...
...officials were notably absent from the stampissuing ceremony, however, and there was some uneasiness in the mostly black city over the near veneration of a book that stereotypes blacks. Butterfly McQueen, 75, who played the movie role of Prissy, Miss Scarlett's maid, showed up with tongue firmly in cheek. Handed an album of the stamps, she repeated her most famous GWTW line: "Miss Scarlett, I don't know nothin' about birthin' babies...