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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last of Hoffmann's triad of heartbreaking heroines is the conniving courtesan Giulietta (Heidi Brown). A slave to the evil Dappertutto (again played by Benaim), she tries to steal the soul of Hoffman by capturing his reflection in a mirror. She abandons Hoffmann after he engages in a bloody duel with her wealthy suitor Schlemil (James Capobianco...

Author: By Elisabetta A. Coletti, | Title: Dunster House Opera Spins Rousing 'Tales' | 2/20/1997 | See Source »

...lectures are not the evil albatrosses they are often made out to be. Many of my dormmates were in Chem 10, Ec 10 and Justice. They described foreign phenomena called "lectures," discussed going to class in Sanders and debated whether the balcony or the front row was a better option on any given...

Author: By Susannah B. Tobin, | Title: Not Just a Face in the Crowd | 2/15/1997 | See Source »

...these facts, the range of topics covered during the "Ayn Rand Comes to Harvard" lecture series should be proof enough that Objectivism is a philosophy worth taking note of. Lecture topics ranged from the nature of man's free will to the proper basis for the ethics of the evil of multiculturalism. Even people who only made it to the debate on the morality of selfishness last December 10 heard Professor Harry Binswanger lay out a detailed chain of reasoning to establish that by virtue of the facts of reality and of human nature, the pursuit of rational self-interest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Attack Against Objectivist Club Unfounded | 2/10/1997 | See Source »

...helped set the standard for what a modern commercial movie can be at its best (ingenious, kinetic, exhilarating). Unfortunately it also provided a template with which countless imitators have since shown what a modern commercial movie can be at its dreariest (mind numbing, mechanical, pointlessly assaultive). For good or evil, Star Wars has been to the past two decades of American moviemaking what Ronald Reagan was to the past two decades of American politics: defining, unavoidable, but hard, in the end, for even detractors to hate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: THE FORCE IS BACK | 2/10/1997 | See Source »

...lasted all of 10 hours) and then Los Angeles. Together they wrote Thornton's eye-catching role as the white-trash murderer in One False Move. In this heralded heist film, shot in Arkansas in 1991, Thornton is never scarier than when he smiles--the picture of boll-weevil evil. He's good at that. "Billy can organize all the madmen inside himself," says John Ritter, the Three's Company refugee who gets a career makeover as a gentle gay man in Sling Blade. "If Horton Foote and David Lynch ran at each other at 100 m.p.h. and collided head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: BILLY BOB...OLIVIER? | 2/10/1997 | See Source »

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