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Ultimately, there is no easy formula to determine the role identity groups should play in students’ lives and in campus politics...
...From Grant and Hepburn in Charade to Mark Wahlberg and Thandie Newton in Charlie, the charisma drop is steeper than that of Martha Stewart's stock price. Director Jonathan Demme's jittery melange is shot in punishing close-ups by a Ritalin-deprived camera circling the actors like a Formula One driver racing around the Place de la Concorde. Donen got it gloriously right the first time. Why do it again? And why do it like this? --By Richard Corliss...
...schedule that is up to its antenna in crooks and crime, cops and private eyes, crusading attorneys and special investigators. In all, there are 29 crime shows on the network schedules, accounting for roughly 21 of the 63 prime-time hours each week... Attempts to vary that formula have stretched as far as TV writers' imaginations can fetch. The good guys come in wondrous array: in uniform (Adam-12, The Rookies), in disguise (Toma), in court (Perry Mason, Owen Marshall) and in hayseed (Hawkins, McCloud). They are black (Shaft, Tenafly), elderly (The Snoop Sisters), bald (Kojak), Polish (Banacek), portly (Cannon...
...admissions office. In the same story, Director of Admissions Marlyn McGrath Lewis ’70-’73 is quoted as saying that the Z-list is “not a legacy list” and that “there’s no formula to this and there’s not much in common [between Z-list students...
...could use a magic formula at the moment. Even though Nelly and Eminem are on a trajectory to sell 10 million copies of their most recent albums, the genre is in a profound slump. Sales are down 24% from the same period last year, and the depression isn't merely commercial. For the first time in recent memory, there's genuine apathy among fans and a sense that the music isn't what it used to be. LL Cool J--whose career has risen and fallen but seldom dipped below platinum--suddenly finds himself the genre's wisest head. "There...