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...Courses of Instruction, which features a photograph of Memorial Hall on its high-gloss crimson cover, was mailed Wednesday to all Harvard students in the United States, Canada and Mexico...
Some books, such as O.J.'s Legal Pad (Villard) -- which has sold about a quarter-million copies in the three weeks since its publication -- provide little more than good fun on the sidelines of the trial, but other efforts, far from being a gloss on events, may be altering their course. For instance, Resnick's book gave the prosecution insight into the former football star's possessiveness, but to the extent that Resnick was seen to be capitalizing on a tragedy, it also tainted her as a possible witness. A new book, Kato Kaelin: The Whole Truth, which...
...cheerful, knowing way, the hit movie Casper mines this same dark soil. On its face, it is a high-gloss update of the "friendly ghost" who starred in 55 cartoons between 1946 and 1959, a long-running comic book and a short-lived 1979 TV series. Director Brad Silberling mixes rude slapstick for the kids with pop-culture cues for their parents, including gag cameos by Clint Eastwood, Mel Gibson and Ghostbusters' Dan Aykroyd. The movie even has its own theme-park ride, a kind of human car wash. All jolly enough. But in its haunted heart, Casper is another...
Core courses are commonly--and often rightfully--regarded as watered-down versions of regular, departmental courses in the same disciplines. Even courses that purport to focus intensely on a single period of time or area of academic theory gloss over the rigor inherent in true study. Cores are seen as "guts" in many cases--lackadaisical breaks from an otherwise profound education. Students should not be given the obligation or the opportunity to take courses that do not measure up to departmental standards...
...neophyte with one movie and a screen test behind him when they first danced together in 1933's Flying Down to Rio. Before the decade was over, Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire had become the most famous pair of dancers that would ever cut their way across a high-gloss floor or up a spiral staircase. In the memorable words of Katharine Hepburn, the pairing gave him sex and her class-yet Rogers' own singular combination of pathos and spunk would make itself evident in non-Astaire efforts like 1937's Stage Door. In the years following the screen couple...