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Strutting around in lookalike Prada shoes and hot little outfits, Liz is FM’s style guru. What sold us on her? One tiny comment. “I’m a bitch,” she wrote. And that one insight into her personality resonated with many on the outgoing board. Liz will be the voice of reason and propriety. She will set the tone for a classy FM as she tells the dirty boys ranked above her to sit down and shut up. A Boston Latin grad and a native of West Roxbury...
...lecture, Loker Professor of English Robert J. Kiely ’60 thanked Steiner for his insight into the “art of teaching, the psychodynamics, the anthology and pathology of the relationship between teacher and student...
...darling of cinema’s intelligentsia. This relatively no frill treatment has restored the picture to an almost resplendent shine. Press photos, original trailers, advertising campaigns and storyboards abound, but the true treat is the audio commentary. Chicago Sun-Times critic Roger Ebert surprises with adroit and shrewd insight into the film’s technical aspects while Welles biographer Peter Bogdanovich fills in historical and personal minutia. This is the Citizen Kane we’ve all been waiting...
...Styron exact revenge upon Nick, a man Murphy claims previously raped her friend. Styron’s relatively friendless life in her quest to become CEO is a motif that has been used before, but is artfully drawn out in this movie. These two issues juxtaposed together provide influential insight into modern womanhood. However, this significance is muddled under lesbian innuendo that takes the viewer’s mind off of the topic, bringing the movie from the level of extremely impressive to extremely unfulfilling. If Stettner can learn to focus his message as well as he focuses his action...
...forget that peace ever had any positive bearing on their lives. To paraphrase a famous jurist, the life of peace has never been logic; it has been experience. In other words, a peace process can only be understood and evaluated in terms of its payoff. Without internalizing this simple insight, both sides seem destined to remain locked in their macabre dance for the foreseeable future...