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...With a $23 million budget and cast that includes Bob Hoskins and Gabriel Byrne, Nair's adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel Vanity Fair is her biggest film yet. Reese Witherspoon plays Becky Sharp, the 1820s London social climber who set the bar by which such mountaineers would forever after be measured. The buzz is all about how Nair has played up Thackeray's Indian influences?he was born in Calcutta?including a Bollywood dance number and an ending shot in the Rajasthani fort town of Jodhpur. The New York Times griped about the "outlandish" sight of Witherspoon doing...
...recognize Becky Sharp. Ever since William Makepeace Thackeray created her more than 150 years ago, she has been the universally recognized embodiment of the social climber, in her case trying to rise out of poverty to a respectable position in a society?Georgian England?more rigidly stratified than any we know. In that delicately poised world, speaking the wrong word, using the wrong fork, could mean disaster, and the suspense in Vanity Fair derives largely from our anxious observation of Becky navigating a vast sea of swells...
However, such efforts fell short, and Lindquist easily coasted to the quarterfinals where she now faces Lynn Hill, a world-renowned rock climber...
...real, but MacDonald uses re-enactments of the story’s events to supplement a narrated account from the disaster’s survivors. The nut of their crisis: halfway through a climb, one of the two team members falls and breaks several leg bones. The other climber decides to lower his injured partner to safety, 300 feet of rope at a time, until he accidentally lowers him over a precipice. Knowing that soon both of them would tumble to their deaths, he makes a critical decision and cuts the cord...
...Ansel Adams had gone into interior design, he probably would have produced something like the Claverly basement, home to the Harvard Mountaineering Club. Their illustrious set-up contains not one, but two rock walls, as well as a bouldering room catering to ropes-free climbers who dare to scamper across the ceiling a la Spiderman (the floor is well-padded with mattresses for the novice rock climber). Harvard Mountaineering Club member Neal K. Gupta ’07 says walk-ins are “totally welcome.” Fellow member Lucas T. Laurensen ’06 notes...