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...committee is still not sold. Though Susan intends to study literature, dean of admissions Diane Anci is worried because her transcript is "thin" in science credits and notes that she has progressed in math no further than pre-calculus. "Let's have a dramatic reading from her essay," says Anci. Susan's meditation on the ferryboats she rides across Puget Sound each morning to her Seattle school elicits approving chuckles from the jury. Anci is convinced. Moments later, the committee votes to rate Susan a 3 on a descending scale of 1 to 9 - high enough to earn...
...success of SAT blockers often turns on more subjective measures, such as a student's writing style - Mount Holyoke requires three essays and one graded writing sample - or her poise during an interview. The committee happily devours one student's account of her German ancestry, titled "Ode to Sauerkraut" but spends 20 minutes agonizing over an otherwise stellar applicant who wrote a "young" essay on the inspirational aspects of "Charlotte's Web." Despite her banal musings, she is admitted. But the panel is far less forgiving of an applicant whose interview was "enjoyable but not terribly deep." Her faux...
...Gore Vidal, in his lovely essay called "Some Memories of the Glorious Bird" - actually a review of Tennessee Williams' memoirs - wrote with immense affection of 1948. He remembered the year as a golden age, best savored in Rome or New York City. Best Year tends to be the year when you were young and strong, and had just made the giddy discovery that you could commit great follies and survive them - the discovery that you were, for practical purposes and for the indefinite future, immortal...
...film before, from the steaming draft horses in The Terminal, 1893, to the exquisitely etched, near Japanese view of the Flatiron Building in snow, 1902. The hundreds of photos he made of Georgia O'Keeffe, his lover and (after 1924) his wife, are an intense and extended erotic essay. Never before had a camera scrutinized a woman so closely or praised a fine-boned body with such rapturous aesthetic effect...
Whispers in doorways. Long, longing looks. Desire at war with propriety. This enthralling, enigmatic, romantic drama from Asia's most influential auteur (Chungking Express) is an essay in appetite and inhibition. In 1962 Hong Kong, two neighbors (Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu-wai) learn that their spouses are having an affair with each other. Slowly they are drawn into their own web of resentment, guilt and lust. Do the cuckolds have their own affair? That is for the viewer to judge. What's beyond dispute is the artful evocation of a world of glamour and deceit, humidity and heartbreak...