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Some colleges would laugh this issue right out of the dorm. Many, if not most, house people together regardless of class. Aha, the clever critic notes, most colleges don't employ the House system. Still, Yale, that bastion of Eastern Enlightenment, has what amounts to a four-year, pre-assigned House system, and consequently there is less freshman-upperclass tension (not that they would notice it anyway). Until this year, the Quad, which some of you may have heard of if you've ever hiked a few miles north from the Square, had four-class housing and it was working...
Cria. Film critic David Denby writes a sensitive and intriguing analysis of this latest film by Spanish director Carlos Saurus in the Boston Phoenix that makes it sound like far and away the most interesting new movie in town. Saurus portrays the hypocrisy of a philandering, insensitive military man and the despair of his young wife who is dying of cancer through the eyes of their aloof, perceptive and frighteningly critical young daughter, Ana. At the same time, he includes scenes that give a more objective, more compassionate view of the unhappy parents. The theme of the child's view...
Bonnie Zimering as the Mute is a refreshing fountain of understatement. Her careful, graceful mime and dour expression accented by simple, effective make-up, transforms her role from a piece of furniture and dispenser of props into a wise and mournful critic of what goes on around her. She is sophisticated without being aloof, sympathetic but not saccharine...
Perhaps Shahak and his lies should simply be ignored. Such is the view of Uri Avineri, a dove and outspoken Israeli government critic. That Shahak has been and continues to be allowed "to express his ideas freely without removing him from the University" is perhaps the best refutation of Shahak's claims. It is unfortunate that The Crimson devoted not inconsiderable attention to this publicity-mad-man. Jessica Sandler...
DIED. Marie-Térèse Walter, 68, Pablo Picasso's mistress from 1927 to 1942 and mother of his daughter Maïa; by her own hand (hanging); in Antibes, France. Described by Art Critic John Berger as "sexually the most important" woman in Picasso's life, she appeared in hundreds of his paintings and drawings...