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...disappointed then that the president missed an excellent chance to begin this dialogue in his open letter to the Harvard community. Rudenstine's letter, released last week, devotes several pages to boasting about Harvard's strengths and greeting new students, deans and faculty, but is more noticeable for its gloss over the problems of a university that has come off a very difficult year...
Although Joshua Kaufman has clearly been sold on the "simplicity" of Senator Arlen Specter's postcard plan for income tax in America, his column ("Politics, Not Props," Sept. 25, 1995) reflects his failure to see through the gloss of Specter's Flat Tax Plan brochure (yes, it was glossy, too, just like all the others) and analyze Specter's spiffy graph and crafty doublespeak...
...inexplicably has its genesis in Clark Gable's discovery of a supposedly frostbitten Loretta Young in the film "Call of the Wild." Mizrahi sets (and Keeve clips) the moment at which he discovered his new season's look: she's wrapped in fur; her make-up is "dewy," lip gloss fresh. "If you must freeze on the tundra." Mizrahi deadpans, "this...
...Steiner and Hermann have there been as many brilliant young composers working in movies. Consider these recent offerings: James Horner's glorious, Celtic-twilight-tinged music for Braveheart, along with his otherworldly harmonies for Apollo 13; Elliot Goldenthal's dashing romp through Batman Forever; Michael Kamen's lounge-lizard gloss on the great Latin lover Don Juan de Marco; and James Newton Howard's swashbuckling music for the otherwise waterlogged epic Waterworld. Together with the idiosyncratic Danny Elfman (Batman, Pee Wee's Big Adventure) and the rhapsodic Trevor Jones (The Last of the Mohicans, Cliffhanger), not to mention such still...
...thinking, sorting out the dead ends and red herrings, when you are really being toyed with by an intelligence as devious as Soze's. For those who don't care whodunit, the film has superior skulking by some wonderfully actory actors and brings high-wire wit to its high-gloss gamesmanship...