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Happily, yes. Jordan forced himself to fly blind into The Crying Game after hitting a Hollywood dead end with two flops (High Spirits and We're No Angels). In doing so he resolved the theme of feminine mystique that preoccupied him in Mona Lisa and The Miracle, two movies about men who create their own myopic visions of the women they love. Then blind luck spotted Davidson, who gave The Crying Game its eerie emotional resonance. Some people have a magnetic lure, the movie says and Davidson shows. "At first Jaye was shaking," says Jordan of the filming...
...University thinks of us as Asian, but the AAA is willing to cordon us off," said co-president Mona M. Patel '94. "If we're not represented by AAA, there seems to be a gap between what the University sees is going on and what we see going...
...Jordan spins his had-I-but-known plot twists from Belfast to London. By the end of this devious thriller, just about everyone has had to point a loaded gun at just about anyone else he or she might have cared for. In a style of agitated naturalism, Jordan (Mona Lisa) examines poignant matters of life and death, sex and friendship, duty and loyalty, freedom and bondage, manhood and womanhood and all the ambiguous areas in between...
...Mona M. Patel '94, co-president of the SouthAsian Association, says the South Asian vote hastraditionally been more conservative than that ofother ethnic groups. This is especially true amongolder members of the South Asian population in theU.S., because they "have done well for themselvesafter immigrating here...
...MacArthur Foundation wasn't alone in hurdling gender barriers last week. For the first time since the U.S. began naming a poet laureate, in 1986, the position has gone to a woman: Mona Van Duyn, 71. Van Duyn, a 1991 Pulitzer prizewinner, has often written about human relationships, drawing on her 48 years of wedlock to versify about "the complexities, bumps and humor of marriage...