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This year there were so many Best Actress contenders that some of them had to be left out. Omitted from the list of nominees were Nicole Kidman, for her role as an overly ambitious newscaster in the black comedy "To Die For" and Jennier Jason Leigh, for her portrayal of a drug-addicted would-be rock star in "Georgia." Also missing is Vanessa Redgrave, who received a Golden Globe nomination for her performance in "A Month by the Lake." She was not expected to be an Oscar nominee, but I, for one, am of the opinion that every time Vanessa...

Author: By Nicole Columbus, | Title: Oscar Preview: "You Like Me! You Really Like Me!" | 3/21/1996 | See Source »

This time, Naddaff, Co-master Leigh Hafrey and Allston Burr Senior Tutor Mary Peckham issued an advisory to all Mather House residents that has been distributed in the mail...

Author: By Alexander T. Nguyen, | Title: Racist Graffiti Stuns Mather | 3/19/1996 | See Source »

...workstation displays patterns of green and red spikes; lights blink on a bank of small computers; and needles flutter on glowing dials. From a stereo amplifier comes a static-filled hiss, the audio version of radio waves piped directly from the antenna above. The display amuses graduate student Darren Leigh, hard at work debugging a BETA computer program. "We do a few things here for the tourists," he explains. "Camera crews love this stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LISTENING FOR ALIENS | 2/5/1996 | See Source »

...BETA spot a signal that seems to meet the programmed criteria for artificiality, the radio telescope would abandon its fixed position and automatically leapfrog farther west so that the same sector of sky would pass before it again. If the suspect signal should then reappear in the same location, Leigh says, "alarms won't go off, but the computer will send us E-mail." And unlike earlier SETI programs, which sometimes signaled "hits" that after much excitement and analysis turned out to be beeps from prosaic Earthbound or orbiting electronic sources, BETA methodically compares signals from space to signals from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LISTENING FOR ALIENS | 2/5/1996 | See Source »

...York Film Critics awards certainly provides a clue as to who will be nominated for an Oscar," says TIME's Richard Corliss. "They also give the films' publicists a major tool in marketing the films." Other winners in the 61st annual Film Critics Circle awards went to Jennifer Jason Leigh who won best actress in the film "Georgia"; Ang Lee as best director for "Sense and Sensibility"; Kevin Spacey as best supporting actor in three films -- "Seven," "The Usual Suspects," "Swimming with Sharks" and "Outbreak." Mira Sorvino won best supporting actress for Woody Allen's "Mighty Aphrodite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK LIKES LAS VEGAS | 12/15/1995 | See Source »

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