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...impossible not to sympathize with Mark. Is there anyone incapable of falling in love with Gene Tierney? She was quite possibly the most beautiful woman to grace Hollywood's Golden Age. Her patrician cheekbones were a battlefield where light and shadows made love. Her mouth, a swathe of pomegranate, revealed glimpses of charmingly imperfect teeth. However, it was her eyes that assured her immortality. Drops of black fire, raindrops at night, Gene Tierney's eyes invited annihilation...
...January the movie finally fanned out on 1,200 screens and, of all things, it was a hit. America seemed to be accepting a few heretical notions: that a homosexual could earn respect and sympathy; that a star like Tom Hanks could play a gay man with credible grace; that another star, Denzel Washington, could play a homophobe who gets an education in brotherly love; that a film about AIDS could attract the mass audience thought to be hostile to films about the disease and its victims...
...being trapped in a picture-perfect family where everyone has red-cheeked country soul brims with strapping good health. Little by little, however, Jeroen adjusts. Though this first part of the film covers familiar territory, Kerbosch's understated direction renders a potentially hackneyed situation fresh. Kerbosch adds lovely grace notes, such as Jeroen's discovery of a downed Allied plane in the sea, and takes full advantage of the luminous and austerely beautiful Friesian countryside...
...History and Science Department will alsoadmit students who are weaker candidates on"probation," giving them a period of grace inwhich to prove themselves capable of handling therequirements of the concentration...
...Swanee Grace Hunt...