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Gary A. Johnson, executive director of Phillip Brooks House (PBH), said he supported the spirit of the program but criticized it for not taking advantage of current volunteer service systems at colleges and universities such...
...Phillip Kaufmann's film adaptation captures most elements of the novel--the real elements, not the perceived ones--and presents them with faithful exactitude. In fact, so close is the adaptation that readers of the novel may find the film boring and tensionless. Even the fresh elements which Kaufmann brings to the film seem a coherent fit with Crichton's vision...
...board meeting this Thursday. Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves '72 and Mid-Cambridge Neighborhood Association President John R. Pitkin were both recommended by the CCA screening committee and will likely be endorsed Thursday. Some board members may also move to endorse Elaine Noble, according to CCA president R. Phillip Dowds...
...sixteen first-year dorms, both within the Yard walls and near the Union, were slated for overhauls. The price tag was considerable--according to FAS Director of Planning and Senior Development Officer Phillip J. Parsons, the total estimate for the project runs between $60 and $70 million, if everything goes fairly well...
They constitute a glum triangle. It is extremely difficult to care which of the two guys may be the resident psychopath, and neither the script nor Phillip Noyce's direction creates a growing, compelling sense of menace around Stone's character. In fact, she is presented more as an object for study than as an object of sympathy -- that is to say, rather voyeuristically. It is, of course, possible to see this as artful irony, given the film's theme, but it feels more like carelessness. Or exploitation. Or simple imitation. For like Eszterhas' somewhat hotter, somewhat smarter Basic Instinct...