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...rooms to study, the bells only remind us of how little we are getting done. Time chimes by all too loudly as we check our email, munch on popcorn and surf the day away online. They're not loud enough to distract us totally--in fact, their harmonious scale is a vast improvement over the atonal Lowell House bells on Sunday afternoons. Nevertheless, we now find ourselves with a new procrastination excuse: searching for the as-yet-unseen bells can be a welcome alternative to finishing that problem...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOR WHOM THE BELL CHIMES | 2/13/1998 | See Source »

Francis Ford Coppola missteps in a heavy-handed moralistic mess that has none of the storytelling grace he's displayed on happier occasions. In fact, he's succeeded in making John Grisham--the king of popcorn thrillers--lethally boring. There is no shameless entertainment here, no chance to be swept up in instant thrills. Instead, we see Harvard dropout Matt Damon lost in two hours of disjointed storytelling without a touch of drama. --Soman S. Chainani...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevitas | 1/9/1998 | See Source »

...moviegoer, the holiday season has nothing to do with family, goodwill, peace on earth or any other Hallmark sentiment. It is about long lines, $10 buckets of state popcorn and a violent hatred for crying babies. Unfortunately, this year newborns were not the only theater patrons unable to control their emotions. The cinema was brimming with two particularity heart-wrenching tales, the three-hour tragedy Titanic and the historical drama Amistad and with each showing another auditorium of Americans was left a whimpering...

Author: By Noah Oppenheim, | Title: Unloading 'Amistad' | 1/5/1998 | See Source »

...anything. But more likely, you as a reader have self-identified as either one or the other of the above. But why bother? To what extent are the movies available to us really bifurcated on such a simple line? "That arty stuff is boring," complains Average Joe Popcorn. "Those action pictures are so senseless," scoffs Elitist Joe Coffeeshop. Neither of these statements are universally true, of course, which brings us back to Henry James. And to vampires...

Author: By Nicholas K. Davis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Reconciling Highbrow, Big-Budget Films | 12/12/1997 | See Source »

Francis Ford Coppola missteps in a heavy-handed moralistic mess that has none of the storytelling grace he's displayed on happier occasions. In fact, he's succeeded in making John Grisham--the king of popcorn thrillers--lethally boring. There is no shameless entertainment here, no chance to be swept up in instant thrills. Instead, we see Matt Damon lost in two hours of disjointed storytelling without a touch of drama...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, | Title: The Rainmaker | 12/12/1997 | See Source »

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