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...Most of the large departments have switched to de-personalized instruction," said Giuseppe Di Palma, chairman of the Political Science Department at the University of California at Berkeley...
...black-and-white '50s. Until now, their image of the man and his work was that of a brand name without a product. "Hitchcock" might suggest a certain kind of movie-suspenseful, shocking, grimly humorous-but one that was known secondhand, through the imitations of Brian De Palma, François Truffaut, Stanley Donen, John Carpenter, the James Bond series and a hundred gory slasher movies (the deformed children of Psycho). Now young viewers can enjoy the original Hitchcocks, all of which play variations on a favorite theme: the need for a guilty person to be discovered...
Hollywood may try to change his mind. Starting with Brian De Palma's Carrie in 1976, each movie version has turned a profit (The Dead Zone has grossed $20 million since its late October release, while Christine has raked in a more modest $10 million). King's deftly spun tales of vampires, haunted hotels and psychically advanced humans have brought a measure of class and complexity to a genre domiated by crass scare films like Friday the 13th. "King creates youthful protagonists who are very much in tune with what's going on in the contemporary world...
AILING. Joan Miró, 90, protean Spanish painter of playful, dreamlike canvases; gravely ill with deteriorating respiratory disease; in Palma de Mallorca...
Perhaps De Palma and Stone had aspirations of Godfatherhood: an operatic overview of the nation's immigrant black princes, a meticulous dissection of the relationship between crime and Big Business, a celebration of the American power ethic, a warning against corporal or corporate abuse. But Scarface lacks the generational sweep and moral ambiguity of the Corleone saga. At the end, Tony is as he was at the beginning: his development and degeneration are horrifyingly predictable; his death evokes not fear or pity, but numb relief...