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...soft, what light through mogul's closed mind breaks? It is the glimmer of belief that there might be an audience for movies based on the plays of William Shakespeare. Since 1993, when Kenneth Branagh's rompish Much Ado About Nothing earned $23 million at the domestic box office on an $8 million budget, studios have begun to belly up to the Bard. "Much Ado showed Hollywood how successful and enjoyable a Shakespeare movie could be," says Lindsay Law, president of Fox Searchlight Pictures...
...being "fooled" by electronic technology into (unconsciously) thinking that the victims of famine are right next door and might someday reciprocate. But that doesn't diminish the act. Our capacity to thus distort biological purpose, to prevail over our selfish heritage, is a deep source of hope and a glimmer of true goodness...
...Crimson editorial staff really managed to outdo itself on Monday, September 23 ("Presidential Race Offers No Choice"). Without so much as a glimmer of dissent, in its staff editorial it unanimously and unilaterally rejected the ideas of the Republican Party while complaining that Bill Clinton is insufficiently left-wing, and then amazingly lobbed the following stone at Bob Dole: "Certainly he has no new ideas. And the ones he has dredged up from the past are absurd...
Like an unpredicted glimmer of midwinter sunshine, cheerfulness keeps breaking into this tale of Celtic woe. McCourt's set piece accounts of his First Communion and his adventures as a post-office messenger, for example, are riotously funny. Plus Angela's Ashes has a cheerful ending. At 19, Frank leaves home for America, where jobs now are easier to find. Good cess to the luck that brought him through...
...course, much to the disillusionment of some students who had seen a glimmer of hope for the Core Curriculum, this class, like others during this term, will be lotteried...