Word: magic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...back to Byerly Hall by express mail this week; other more contemplative thinkers might wait until midnight on April 30. Harvard's policy is increasingly rare in the competitive world of admissions, where many schools use an early decision policy to lock in their acceptances and so increase the magic yield percentage of students accepted who actually attend. But the policy is a wise one because it allows students freedom of choice in one of the most important decisions they've probably ever had to make--where to go to college for the next four years...
Before the 1999 season began, Barkley announced his retirement after the season was over. I think he realized it was his time. His friends had left- Michael, Larry, Magic. He was playing for a team that was going to feature mostly rookies. I don't think Sir Charles wanted to suffer for more than one year...
...after the original film was released; Stravinsky saw Disney's take on The Rite of Spring, liked it and gave Disney the rights to other pieces. "Good ideas will always find their way to the screen," says Peter Schneider, Disney Studios boss. Or to some other part of the Magic Kingdom. Roy talks of putting the Rachmaninoff piece, which was fully storyboarded before it was scratched, in Disneyland's CircleVision pavilion. With a budget estimated at $85 million (some skeptics say it's nearly twice that amount), F2K will send Disney execs out scouting other venues for other unused segments...
...mouse commandeer the corridor. Enter a new inmate, John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan), a giant black man with a gift of preternatural empathy; he can literally suck the pain out of people. Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks), the chief guard of E Block, is in awe of this white magic. He benefits from it, uses it to help a friend and, eventually, pays...
...bizarre and cerebral for some, this black-and-white metaphysical murder mystery is set in the wee hours of the morning in an unnamed European city. The film ultimately hinges upon Allens real-life passion for magic tricks to give coherence to this Kafkaesque story. Occasionally funny and compelling, the movie is mostly notable for its cast, which features man of the moment John Malkovich and Madonna as circus performers and Lily Tomlin, Jodie Foster and Kathy Bates as whores...