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Each Halloween, Richard and Pat Nixon would stand on their broad doorstep, greeting their guests with smiles and handshakes. They were flanked on both sides by enormous wicker baskets overflowing with candy and other treats...

Author: By David B. Lat, | Title: Trick-or-Treat, Tricky Dick | 10/31/1994 | See Source »

Then one day the young Marais (played by Depardieu's son, Guillaume) shows up on Sainte Colombe's doorstep asking to be his student, Guillaume Depardieu possesses an angelic beauty and the camera dots generously on his face, studying it and worshipping it. His square jaw is offset by soft, plump lips, a long nose, and a lion's golden mane that cascades around his face like honey. He is able to be at once fey and masculine, crude and innocent. Few actors' looks are so captivating that all they have to do in a scene is give a certain...

Author: By Marco M. Spino, | Title: 'Matins' Strikes a Chord of Love Lost | 10/27/1994 | See Source »

...after his conversation with the Cambridge District Attorney, Bossert did in fact turn over the boy, a 17-year-old California native, to Harvard officers. The suspect was arrested by University police on the house masters' doorstep at #50 Holyoke Street shortly after midnight...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE? | 10/19/1994 | See Source »

...after his conversation with the Cambridge District Attorney, Bossert did in fact turn over the boy, a 17-year-old California native, to Harvard officers. The suspect was arrested by University police on the house masters doorstep at #50 Holyoke Street shortly after midnight...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE? | 9/12/1994 | See Source »

Blanch speaks deceptively in only the first few minutes of the film; for after Stanley's confrontation of why she has arrived on his and Stella's doorstep, Blanche begins to lose the facade of reality she carried as the last reminder of her former life, She has lost the family's country plantation, Belle Reve (translated as "beautiful dream"). And Blanche, confronted by Stanley Kowalski's brash manner and disrespect, loses the last hold on her own "beautiful dream" of maintaining her life as a lady...

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

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