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...Days of Heaven, an opaque allegory about migrant farm workers in Texas on the eve of World War I. It is so lyrically beautiful and narratively elliptical that its cast, which included Richard Gere and Sam Shepard, was upstaged by a field of wheat--which might sound like a knock on the film but is really a tribute to the quiet, meditative power of its best moments, of its preoccupation with the verities of the natural world. As one might assume from that description, Days of Heaven, like Badlands, fared poorly at the box office. Unlike Badlands, it also received...
...upside is that I get to make records for a career," Hanley confides. "It makes me happy that this is what I get to do with my life. [But] I've never been good with criticism...the more successful you become, the more people want to knock you down...
...late Monday night--just as I begin planning my march up the steps of the Castle and the improvised secret knock I'll use to gain entrance--when, finally, I locate a 'Poonster who's willing to discuss the organization. To my surprise, the upperclassman admits right away that the Lampoon was behind both the parodies and the Hasty Pudding prank. Speaking on the condition of anonymity, he explains, "I felt sorry for freshmen who were taken in, but maybe it made people think about institutions like [the Pudding]." He rejects my suggestion that the Lampoon has undergone some radical...
...campaigning. In high school you [didn't] have to knock on doors," Egan said. "I'm looking forward to getting to know a lot of people in my district this year...
Defeating Yale will not be easy. As one of the Ivy powerhouses, the Elis are as tough and quick as they come-not to mention hungry to knock off the defending champs...