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...houses and are visited by strangers who change the families' lives. But this time, I'll get straight to the assessments. For me, Mary Poppins worked, at a level higher than efficient and just this side of splendid. The pleasures of Grey Gardens are more mixed. It boasts a glorious performance by Christine Ebersole as both mother and daughter (I'll explain later), and Best Support by Mary Louise Wilson, in a smart show whose main deficiency is exactly what so many modern musicals lack: good music...
...formally ended the war—is chronicled with each spectacular and likely little-known detail. Jackson, feeling the constraints of his small army, even sent a proclamation to black recruiters, saying, “Through a mistaken policy, you have heretofore been deprived of a participation in the glorious struggle for national rights in which your country is engaged—this no longer shall exist. As sons of freedom you are now called upon to defend your most inestimable blessing...
...possibility comes with a giant “if”: the Crimson would have to beat eighth-seeded UCLA in Los Angeles on Wednesday and have Gardner-Webb (a team whose nickname, quite ironically, is the Bulldogs) upset ninth-seeded Clemson on the same day.But then, in this glorious hypothetical, Harvard would earn one more home game as the higher seed, and the contest would be slated to take place here in Cambridge on Saturday or Sunday. Isn’t the one thing that could save a disaster of a tailgate the prospect that probably the biggest game...
...Richard Lacayo explains in the illuminating essay that accompanies this one, the company built its lustrous reputation two decades ago in its intermediate stage between Janus the movie distributor and Criterion the DVD producer: as the Voyager label in the brief, glorious age of laser discs. Voyager was noted for the care its took in reproducing, sometimes restoring, pristine print quality. In graphics and production, the discs had the elegance of art books; they were the first coffee-table movies...
Sacha Baron Cohen’s new movie, “Borat: Cultural Learning of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan” has been unrepentantly marketed as a controversy...