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...free woman in Ohio in the 1870s. Beloved is a handsome, classy production that is distinguished in every possible way, but it is also a cold film. The screenplay grapples admirably with Morrison's convoluted narrative but can never get to the heart of it. The saving grace of the movie is the renowned cast. Bill Gienapp...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevitas | 11/13/1998 | See Source »

...supplemented by lessons from Edward Zambara. Hailing from Greenlawn, N.Y., his last two performances were American operas preformed in New York City Opera Companies. In a review his most recent performance, the November Opera News claimed that "ticketholders got a peek at a prospective star of tomorrow," who will grace the stage on Friday as Ethan...

Author: By Carla A. Blackmar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ETHAN FROME | 11/13/1998 | See Source »

...these names rested in quiet solitude yesterday in the serene alcove of the Memorial Room tucked away in Memorial Church. Nine mammoth stone panels grace three walls of the room, listing the names, ringed by the words of President A. Lawrence Lowell: "While a bright future beckoned, they freely gave their lives and fondest hopes for us and our allies that we might learn from them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Recalling Harvard's Greatest Sacrifice | 11/12/1998 | See Source »

...emotional flailing. Though some painters show early signs of genius, or at least of facility, Pollock showed none. After you've seen his early drawings in this show, it seems barely credible that so ham-fisted a young draftsman could have become such an exponent of visual grace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Dappled Glories | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

...would walk around the canvas, throwing paint on it from the edges, and the loops and lashes that resulted have a grace and energy that his labored hand drawing never reached. Then there was the pouring, the overlay, one color bleeding into another, producing marbled effects, mists, separations, spots and speckles, each with its element of chance, but all controlled by the prepared mind that chance favors. And the retouching and linkages, done with a brush. "Glory be to God for dappled things!" the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins once exclaimed, and that's what crosses one's mind in front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Dappled Glories | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

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