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...progresses, Blanche deals lines like, "After all, a women's charm is fifty-percent illusion," "Sometimes there's God so quickly," and the line which sums up the film, "Death, the opposite is desire," Of course, all these lines are out of context to the plot structure, but they convey the sense of honesty that reveals itself as the film progresses...

Author: By G. WILLIAM Winborn, | Title: Steamy "streetcar" Goes all the Way | 2/24/1994 | See Source »

...Party, and few of the 3.6 million eligible whites will cast their ballots for the A.N.C. But there is a bloc of about 2 million colored, or mixed-race, voters and 650,000 Indians the A.N.C. wants to win over. That will be where the party does need to convey a sophisticated message, since the colored and Indian communities are not convinced that they will fare better under a black- majority government. "The coloreds have always been marginalized by the A.N.C.," says Lawrence Solomon, 26. As an antiapartheid activist in the townships around Cape Town, he dodged police bullets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spoiling for a Victory | 2/21/1994 | See Source »

...undergraduate course is one of the mostimportant missions I have in teaching at Harvard,"he said. "It's stuff that undergraduates shouldlearn, and I want to convey some of the excitementof the financial world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Campbell Assumes Econ. Post | 2/19/1994 | See Source »

...saying they were from Harvard, did the researchers convey a tacit understanding that they were operating with the permission of the University...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: Details Emerge on Cold War Era Tests | 2/12/1994 | See Source »

...with the movie camera....It's kind of contained: you work it out with your own family, your own friends....It sometimes seems it's the only place where cameras haven't been--my own life." With his unique claim to the material, McElwee shapes the story, editing to convey the emotions he wants. He admits that he has an "obsession with filming"; he finds it "frightening and humorous at the same time. I don't exempt myself, I am as neurotically obsessed with it as anybody." He ends this soliloquy with the question that seems to epitomize his rationale...

Author: By George W. Winborn, | Title: Ross McELwee | 2/10/1994 | See Source »

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