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...okay. And this assurance is Harvard's top priority this weekend. After all, the more convinced parents are that Harvard is okie-dokie after a few suicides and a really tired president, just to name a few of Harvard's more public ailments, the more money they will dish out in the collection...
Overseas radio deserves a better hearing. When Wired Magazine stalks the edge of change, and wired undergraduates eagerly anticipate the wireless era heralded by small-dish satellite equipment that downloads digitized video in real time, listening to Die Deutsche Welle seems anachronistic...
Branagh also shares with Allen a belief that actorly self-absorption is a dish best served cold sober. How sublimely unconscious of their own silliness are Nicholas Farrell's Tom, engaged to play Laertes, but full of intellectual pretense ("Hamlet is Bosnia..."), and Julia Sawalha's Ophelia, stumbling about because she refuses to wear glasses onstage. Joan Collins does such a nice turn as a high-powered agent that one fancies she might make a go of acting if writing novels continues to sour for her. Branagh sometimes sacrifices bite to the sentiment so endemic to show biz. But this...
Particularly problematic is the depiction of women as either whores or dish-rags. Elizabeth Franz's Linda, the only female character (out of five) with more than 10 lines, cries her way through the play, lacking the agency to stop Willy's tragic plight, or at least plead ignorance. Franz plays the part in all Miller's intended misogyny, unaware of any alternative interpretation for a complex character who keeps her family together in the most harrowing of times. Her affectedly frail voice and inability to complete a scene without crying are a true source of anguish to the viewer...
...THERE, TRYING TO GET IN touch with us, his message may well be received first in a quiet rural setting 30 miles northwest of Boston. There, atop a hill overlooking a snow-covered apple orchard and the frozen remnants of a pumpkin patch, a dish-shaped antenna, 84 ft. across, faces skyward, attuned to the murmurings of the cosmos...