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...sure, there is something a little quixotic about following up a picture on war-ravaged 1940's Tuscany with one on jazz-happy 1950's Rome. But I'm delighted that Minghella is so insistent upon bringing us Italy in ravishing color. A spoonful of Italian sugar makes the thriller go down so easy that one wonders whether the ghost of Federico Fellini wasn't smiling on this one. Why not? Thomas Ripley isn't really all that different from Fellini's heroines: like, say, Giulietta Masina in Nights of Cabiria. They are just two lost idealists looking...
...last triumph was the sweeping, stony The English Patient-- and he treats Tom Ripley's tale like David Lean on an epic bender. The thriller story becomes woven into a gorgeous, glorious travelogue through the high points of Italian sightseeing, circa 1957. And, I'll admit, I'm a sucker for a pretty shot of Roman sunlight...
...Matthew M. Segneri '03, who is a member of the commission, maintained that position yesterday, saying that Driskell and Burton exceeded their spending limit...
Expressing optimism about peace efforts throughout the world, over 100 women who have been victims of war and conflict met yesterday with Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 (D-Mass.) and 30 other policy makers at Boston's Park Plaza Hotel...
...Sean M. Mason...