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Robert Bolt's eloquent, epigrammatic script traces Lawrence's career from mapmaking in the British army's Cairo headquarters to masterminding Arab nationalism. In Peter O'Toole's pensive, swashbuckling incarnation, Lawrence makes for a curious messiah. With his skin like a mandarin orange dipped in sand, his voice intimate and cryptic, his haunted eyes staring from inside his burnoose, O'Toole creates a towering, tragic, high-camp sheik of Araby...
This new preoccupation with the physical self has banished cigarettes, once a staple of American culture, to furtive corners. Personally, this is fine by me, but it is startling how the Surgeon General's admonitions have become effective only with the coming of the new purity. It is also curious how the 80's have been a time of rising drinking ages and new heights in anti-drug hysteria (only cocaine, with its connotations of physical "acceleration" and personal wealth, has any style left...
...been a curious time to grow up in America, and the answer of authority, as espoused by William J. Bennett (who will now redirect his no-saying from financial aid to drugs), was a call for a greater "moral discipline" or a return to the past. Of course what we really need is more attention to the moral questions--not just the old answers--along with the rigorously trained minds and modern educations capable and desirous of reflecting on them. But usually, we've been thinking about something else...
...wasn't the first time a member of the Bush family had turned the tables on a journalist, but senior writer Margaret Carlson was nonetheless a bit startled when Barbara Bush opened the interview by quizzing Carlson about the inner workings of TIME. "She was genuinely curious about the magazine," reports Carlson, who visited Mrs. Bush while she was still packing boxes at the vice-presidential mansion on Embassy...
...classes, which are separate from the ordinary high school science curriculum, tend to attract curious students and science buffs. Still, it is often an uphill battle to disabuse kids of fallacies that have become ingrained even by age 17. "You want to defend your old misconceptions, but you can't," says Matthew Liebman, a STAR student at Massachusetts' Framingham North High School. Despite the difficulties, preliminary studies by Shapiro's team suggest that STAR students have a better grasp of basic scientific concepts and mathematics than students in ordinary courses. "We're definitely making headway and in directions we hadn...