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Like any good exploitation picture, From Beyond doesn't quite live down to its promotion. And like many a horror movie touted by the hip critical fringe, it falls just short of delivering on its artistic promises. Director Stuart Gordon has fun trying to slice it both ways, though. Fleshing out a story by Horror Aesthete H.P. Lovecraft, Gordon finds florid visual correlatives for Lovecraft's eldritch prose, then adds a heavy dose of '80s psychosexuality. One messy kiss from the late Dr. Pretorious (Ted Sorel), and a cool blond psychiatrist (Barbara Crampton) gets tarted up in dominatrix leather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bloody Good From Beyond | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

HANDLIN FOLLOWS a time-honored Harvard path--illuminate the broadest themes of American history by covering everything. At its best, this tradition has produced Adams University Professor Bernard Bailyn's Ideological Origins of the American Revolution and Gordon Wood's The Creation of the American Republic. Those books covered an immense era with breathtaking skill. Few books on American history offer such a bravado assault on the origins of American society and do so with such consummate insight and originality...

Author: By Victoria G.T. Bassetti, | Title: The Pitfalls of Heroic History Writing | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

Because when K. Gordon Gwynne-Timothy '87 travels home to Toronto this week for his Rhodes interview, one of his competitors will be his sister...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Reporter's Notebook | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

ADMINISTRATIVE EDITOR: Leah Shanks Gordon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Masthead November 24, 1986 Vol. 128 No. 21 | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

Handlin follows a time-honored Harvard path--illuminate the broadest themes of American history by covering everything. At its best, this tradition has produced Adams University Professor Bernard Bailyn's Ideological Origins of the American Revolution and Gordon Wood's The Creation of the American Republic. Those books covered an immense era with breathtaking skill. Few books on American history offer such a bravado assault on the origins of American society and do so with such consummate insight and originality...

Author: By Victoria G.T. Bassetti, | Title: Not Up To Par | 11/22/1986 | See Source »

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