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...best film. Renoir's work generally involves a search for a community to identify with in French society, whether aristocracy, bourgeoisie, peasantry or working class. This quest often leads to the sentimental conclusion that such an identification is possible--a denouement that marks such otherwise great films as "Grand Illusion." But in "Rules of the Game," Renoir rejects false resolutions. Though the film seems to identify itself sporadically with the aspirations of different characters--the eccentric aristocrat, his Viennese wife, the romantic aviator, and Octave (played by Renoir himself)--the movie ultimately demonstrates all their limitations. Renoir blows the form...
Moffitt claims the FBI is "terrified that the Cubans are going to kill Townley before he ever gets to the grand jury," because he theoretically knows a lot of behind-the-scenes information on both the anti-Castro Cubans and DINA. "I think that he's the kind of character that could plea bargain for a lesser charge, and talk about the other people," Moffitt claimed prior to the report last week that Townley is indeed prepared to talk in order to reduce his sentence. "Although the problem with that is, if he does, he'll never sleep again...
DIED. Frank Raymond Leavis, 82, grand panjandrum of British literary criticism; in Cambridge, England. As a young instructor at Cambridge University, Leavis scandalized his colleagues by daring to lecture on D.H. Lawrence. His reputation grew with the founding in 1932 of Scrutiny, a literary quarterly that measured stringently the moral quality of prose and dismissed both Joyce and Auden for their modernism. An enormously influential figure, he fought his last great battle against C.P. Snow, whom he called "portentously ignorant" for urging the literary world to recognize science...
...vision. Purists were appalled and left with a tantalizing question: Would Balanchine have made a masterpiece for Gelsey had she stayed? But Baryshnikov's offer was a plum that few ballerinas could have resisted. Keeping up with him was hard enough. And the glare of publicity that followed his grand jeté to the West offered his partner the brightest, whitest arena in which to succeed or fail...
...among the students here, that students truly care about their education and their life, and that they will not stand for anyone telling them what they should or should not do. Students will no longer accept the apathetic response that "Harvard tradition will not change." Everything must change, even grand ole Harvard. Mark B. Wenneker...