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Playing around with the contrivances of Hollywood is fun, but Truman wants simply to live a real life without wondering whether or not the people around him are honest. Even if there was a hint of mocking in Americans' pinning on "Free Truman" buttons this summer, they were still--on some level--refusing to let the media dictate the substance of our lives. Just ask the woman in the seat in front of me about this movie that allowed the star to give up his artificial stardom; she couldn't stop gushing, `This is the best movie I've ever...

Author: By Jia-rui Chong, | Title: It's a Meta, Meta World | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

...tone of thestory is so far removed from the world of thoseadult concerns. Although Pin frequently describeswomen as "disgusting," this is, more than anythingelse, an eight-year old who thinks all girls havecooties.) Calvino declines to mention this re-editin his lengthy introduction, although McLaughlintoo generously offers that portions "hint" at anexplanation. This translation also adds someobscenities and a mention of the Soviet Union cutfrom the only previous English translation...

Author: By Benjamin L. Mckean, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: It's a 'Spider' Boy's Life | 10/16/1998 | See Source »

Nevertheless, Lewis's comments seem to reveal a hint of complacency about drinking at Harvard. True, no fraternities are recognized by the College. But has Dean Lewis forgotten our precious final clubs, also not recognized by Harvard, but where students drink the weekends away? Or the heavy drinking that occurs weekly at parties in private rooms? Or the annual, beverage-laden initiation ceremonies for sports teams and other officially-recognized organizations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Dangers Of Complacency | 10/6/1998 | See Source »

...today's Philadelphia and Delaware but also finding the crucially right actors for four shifting, demanding roles, in which Glover would be the only other star. Newton, the Anglo-African actress who illuminated Flirting and Jefferson in Paris, came to the first script reading with an early, teasing hint of her character's mannerisms; her regal beauty explains how Beloved can cast a spell over Sethe and her brood. In the role of Baby Suggs, Beah Richards, who 30 years ago won an Oscar nomination for playing Sidney Poitier's mother in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, serves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bewitching Beloved | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

Looking ahead, our No. 1 piece of advice is simple: Keep getting advice from anyone and everyone around you--your proctor, your prefects, your upperclass friends, people you meet in your extracurriculars. Everyone's been in your shoes and everyone's got a helpful hint on thriving--or at least surviving--at Harvard. Remember, it can never hurt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: You're Here. Now What? | 9/8/1998 | See Source »

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