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Wings of Desire works hard to be both an essay and a love story, a mural and an intimate portrait. To savor this film, the viewer must work hard too. But when the artists behind the screen and the angels in the audience meet, it's like a smoke and coffee: fantastic...
Half of Aria's episodes can be considered briefly and passed over, like the bacon bits at a sumptuous salad bar. The connecting sequence, by Bill Bryden, takes way too long to let John Hurt dress up as Pagliaccio. Charles Sturridge's essay for La Forza del Destino -- an urban mural of children's faces -- is all dour style, a Bugsy Malone in Nighttown. The Bruce Beresford segment, from Erich Korngold's Die tote Stadt, is content to watch two young people disrobe in an English mansion. Robert Altman had the inspiration to show a restless 17th century audience...
...more and more applications. One Massachusetts boy sent 17 -- an expensive proposition at an average of $30 per application. Such tactics can backfire when students spread themselves too thin. Duke's Steele recalls a hastily written application from a girl who had a "wonderful record, wonderful boards, but her essay was just six sentences long." In addition, many colleges, overwhelmed by the flood of applications and fearing that there will be an unmanageable jump in enrollment, are actually accepting fewer students than in the past. Cornell, for example, had 693 applications more than last year, but accepted 240 fewer students...
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