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This is a tough year for Academy Award swamis. No epics. No blockbusters. A Best Picture fight between the gay movie Brokeback Mountain and the racial movie Crash. Talk about obscure--it's less like the Oscars, more like the Obies. So how to win the office pool? Trust your gut, but feel free to follow some of these tips...
...best possible education for them has not yet taken root in German society, but there are signs of change on the horizon. Peg DeRose-Schaefer Haar, Germany Gay Virtues Critic Richard Corliss's piece "How the WEST Was Won Over" described the critical acclaim received by the movie Brokeback Mountain [Jan. 30]. I only wish we could hear someone at the Academy Awards announce, "The Oscar goes to Brokeback Mountain for showing how virility, strong-mindedness and self-confidence are not inconsistent with being gay, and for enabling us to understand how truth, love and freedom are the only ideals...
...part “Tricky.” LL and Jermaine engage in rhyme-scheme and sound-scape rip-off so blatant that it simultaneously makes the listener forget the former’s significant contributions to hip-hop while somehow also eclipsing the mountain of crap that the latter has produced. Poor J-Lo is stuck in the middle (literally—the video splits LL’s still-impressive torso in two, with the aging ass queen wasting space, wearing strange towel-hats and barely singing.) I am also afraid that the average age of the three...
...team has been known to deliver through rain, sleet, or snow—or hail, lighting, and maybe even some unnerving gusts of wind. A weekend characterized by unpredictable weather saw the Crimson alpine and nordic teams finish in ninth place at the Williams Carnival, held at Prospect Mountain, Vt., and Jiminy Peak, Mass. The ninth-place finish in the 11-team field was the team’s fourth in as many events this season, a level of consistency that has placed higher expectations on a young but talented Harvard squad. “It?...
...Three of the hotel's four restaurants overlook the jagged mountain range, but we sat in the Stube?a cozy, wood-paneled Tyrolean room in which Chef Luigi Sarsano serves up local cuisine. His menu features handmade ravioli stuffed with beetroot and spinach, a falling-off-the-bone baked shank of pork with sauerkraut, and fish shipped in daily from Venice's market...