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Harvard's unprecedented rise to prominence--including its first-ever win in an NCAA tournament game--ended in the second round of the national tourney, when North Carolina prevailed, 18-3, in Chapel Hill, NC...
Last year, Harvard rose to the top of the NCAA polls, peaking as high as number three. The Crimson's unprecedented rise to prominence ended in the second round of the NCAA tournament, when North Carolina prevailed, 18-3, in Chapel Hill, NC. All season long the Crimson had turned near-losses into dramatic victories...
...demure, she flatters his prettiness, then gets quickly to the business at hand. Soon they are shrugging off age prejudices like unwanted clothes, the quicker to satisfy their passion. She: "I'm 43." He: "I'm 27." Who cares? Wham! Their sex scenes, more intense than anything in the NC- 17 Henry & June, manage to suggest that all lovemaking carries, like a secret genetic code, the memory of all previous loves...
HENRY & JUNE. X was never like this. The first movie rated NC-17 (no children under 17) is as pretty as a French postcard but much less erotic. Philip Kaufman's biopic of authors Henry Miller and Anais Nin wanders through Paris boudoirs of the 1930s and finds smoke, not steam...
...film -- and for provocative films to follow. Bernardo Bertolucci's The Sheltering Sky, a Christmas release starring Debra Winger and John Malkovich, is rumored to be cruising for an adults-only rating. The X was the forbidden zone, which strong directors could fight, sometimes successfully, to avoid. The NC-17 is different: a limbo rating. Will the board award it more freely? Will the studios declare it taboo? What if a cynical porno distributor submits his hard-core film for a rating and gets the same NC-17? Will publishers and theater owners, seeing the designation as a new euphemism...