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...remake of The Bride of Frankenstein, the most joyously self-satirizing horror movie ever made, than a radical revision of it. In this version, the good doctor is no longer obsessed with challenging God for the secrets of the universe. He is now moodily in love with the mate (Jennifer Beals) he created for his original monster, who has run off with the circus. Since neither Sting nor Beals seems capable of full human animation, it might be argued that they are made for each other. It might also be argued that Franc Roddam's palely loitering direction would defeat...
DIED. John Sparkman, 85, former Democratic Senator from Alabama and Adlai Stevenson's 1952 vice-presidential running mate; of a heart attack; in Huntsville, Ala. Son of a tenant farmer, Sparkman spent 42 years in Congress, serving ten years in the House and 32 years in the Senate, even though he was sometimes accused back home of "going North and turning left." A powerful housing advocate as chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee (1967-74), he also supported the Panama Canal treaties while chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 1975 until his retirement four...
...girlfriends from making the trip and dodged any socializing with the opposition. During a match early in the tour, England batsman Robin Smith, suffering a stomach upset, asked Border whether it might be alright if a teammate brought Smith a glass of water. "What do you think this is, mate?" the captain snarled. "A f___ing garden party...
These unexpected changes led to the partial fracturing of a council that was almost entirely behind President Matthew J. Glazer ’06 and his running mate, then-treasurer Clay T. Capp ’06, at the beginning of the semester...
Former UC President Lamelle Rawlins Ryman ’99, the only other president elected without her running mate, says that she and the vice president worked well together...