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Catherine McCormack delivers a refreshing, funny and inspired performance in Marshal Herskovitz's new period piece. As Veronica Franco, a lower-class beautiful girl turned high-class court prostitute, McCormack leads a well-assembled cast in this slightly flawed--yet worth-seeing--film about life as a courtesan in 16th century Venice. Prefaced by both opening and closing textual summations, the film clearly advances a social agenda--in this respect, it slides by with an average grade. The cleverness of the rest of its script and the excellence of the acting, however, save Dangerous Beauty and makes it shine. --Marc...
President Clinton's strategy so far has been simple. Say almost nothing; buy time. The time has been needed to get past the first weeks of revelations, to let Clinton marshal his forces and to allow everybody to digest the thought of a goatish President unbuckling with an intern. But if Lewinsky testifies the way she is expected to, the President's "no comment" approach may not work anymore. Lewinsky was prepared two weeks ago to testify unequivocally to a sexual relationship with the President, though she denied that she and Clinton had engaged in intercourse...
Ernest J. Wilson III, who entered Harvard in1966 at what may be considered the height of theAmerican Civil Rights movement, set out to createan active social life for himself from day one.Wilson eventually joined the Harvard Lampoon, TheCrimson, the Fly Club and, by senior year, waselected Class Marshal...
...spite of the trend away from international news, the paper did issue two foreign affairs-related extra editions in 1981. One proclaimed the declaration of marshal law in Poland; the other, printed the night of Ronald Reagan's inauguration as President, announced the release of American hostages in Iran...
...Nobody in business owes you anything," she remarked. "If you think of yourself as the dynamic player and marshal resources for yourself, the situation changes dramatically...