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Here, at the Yearbook Office in the beautiful office building sat the sagging shelves of volumes from years past for which so many groups of 1,600 sat for hours on end. They sat before the grey backdrop with a good, solid jacket and tie, or a nice blouse. Then they sat before the Harvard banner with cap and gown. And they looked studious. And some of them were...
...Star Wars; he is currently in London shooting the first of the three long-awaited Star Wars prequels in which Ewan McGregor will star as the youthful Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Natalie Portman as Luke Skywalker's mom. Kubrick, who hasn't worked since 1987's Full Metal Jacket, is also in London, where he is filming Eyes Wide Shut, a psychosexual thriller with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman; Kubrick began shooting the picture almost a full year ago and, exceeding even his own reputation as a quasi-demented perfectionist, shows no signs of wrapping any time soon. "They...
...Carol Shields, a Pulitzer Prize-winner for The Stone Diaries, ever tires of writing fiction, she should consider taking up biography. Her newest novel, Larry's Party, paints a subtle portrait of Larry Weller by taking, as the book jacket states, "a CAT scan of his life." If Shields can make a fictional character seem so alive, she could do wonders with an actual human being...
...book jacket would suggest that by chronicling Larry Weller's life from 1977 to 1997, Shields has captured the essence of Man during each of these decades as well. Apart from one reference to hair length in the 70s, several references to unemployment in the 80s and 90s, and an incongruous, forced discussion of men in the 90s at the dinner party, time scarcely seems to pass at all. Larry and his family age and change, but their essence remains the same. Larry the successful maze designer is not much different from Larry the florist. Shields has created remarkably balanced...
Forget your jacket and shoes when you go to class this semester. Now college students can access classes on-line from the comfort of their bedrooms...