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...canny and largely successful appeal to the youth market, this film streamlines Henry James's notoriously dense novel and brings its melodramatic and erotic undertones to the forefront. A well-bred but impoverished English girl (Helena Bonham-Carter), secretly engaged to an equally impecunious journalist (Linus Roache), persuades her lover to pay court to a young American heiress dying of TB (Alison Elliott). The plot thickens as the three take a pleasure trip to Venice. The scenes in Italy are lovely, and the three stars give superb performances--especially Bonham-Carter, who brilliantly captures the complexities of her character...

Author: By Lynn Y. Lee, | Title: Brevitas | 12/5/1997 | See Source »

...communism's brutality is incapacitating the dissidents, capitalism's seductiveness is discouraging others from raising their fists. Many Chinese intellectuals who would have been in the forefront of protest five years ago are busily making money in business or even government jobs. Liberal economist Cao Siyuan of Beijing runs a consultancy linking bankrupt enterprises with interested investors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: THE GHOSTS OF TIANANMEN | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

Streamlining Henry James's notoriously dense novel, this film brings its melodramatic and erotic undertones to the forefront. A well-bred but impoverished English girl (Helena Bonham-Carter), secretly engaged to an equally impecunious journalist (Linus Roache), persuades her lover to pay court to a young American heiress dying of TB (Alison Elliott). The plot thickens as the three take a pleasure trip to Venice. The close-up cinematography brings out the superb performances of the three stars--especially Bonham-Carter, who brilliantly captures her character's complexities...

Author: By Lynn Y. Lee, | Title: The Wings of the Dove | 11/21/1997 | See Source »

Those at the forefront of the debate about managed care had distinct views on what they see as a system in which patient care is subordinated to profit margins...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Student Group Parodies, Discusses HMOs | 11/19/1997 | See Source »

Your article on the new popularity of Buddhism in America [RELIGION, Oct. 13] referred to our school, a private, nonprofit, liberal-arts college, as having been at the forefront of teaching Eastern spiritual and Western intellectual cultures. We were thrilled to be included, but as much as we value our proximity to Denver, the institute is in fact located in Boulder, Colo., and received its accreditation in 1986, not 1996. LISA TRANK Manager, Public Relations Naropa Institute Boulder, Colo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 17, 1997 | 11/17/1997 | See Source »

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