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...World War II. To the wounded, Hana is a guardian angel, listening like a doting mother to their plaints, caressing them like the chaste lovers they left back home. Setting Almasy up in a ruined monastery, she swathes his parchment skin and reads to him from his precious volume of Herodotus, while Caravaggio (Willem Dafoe), another veteran of the African campaign, urgently quizzes the patient on his mysterious wartime past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: RAPTURE IN THE DUNES | 11/11/1996 | See Source »

Commercials are a fact of life for every television watcher. Usually taken for granted as a time to run to the refrigerator or dash off to the bathroom without missing a precious minute of the game or the show, commercials have generally been regarded as a necessary annoyance. Still, these inevitable breaks in television programming undeniably reflect the culture of the times and, for some, are even held up as art. Selecting from more than 4,210 commercials from 16 countries, the Cannes International Film Festival in 1996 recognized 98 ads as being the world's best. Together, they form...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Is It Live Or Is It Memorex? You Cannes Find Out... | 11/7/1996 | See Source »

...Undergraduate Council has too many problems for it to spend precious political capital on personal infighting. The recent dispute between council President Robert M. Hyman '98 and his campus-happy archrival Rudd W. Coffey '97 was an unnecessary and immature display of contention. Hyman has charged Coffey with a $1,000 loss connected with a band signing: In an attempt to sign the ska band the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Coffey retained the services of an agent whom he foolishly agreed to pay $1,000 whether or not the band agreed to play. Coffey reacted to the charge by blaming...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Needs to Stop Silly Infighting | 10/31/1996 | See Source »

Does anyone else see a problem with employing for the combined cost of $34.60 per hour security guards to protect the precious first years from God-forbid associating with non-Harvard blood...

Author: By Daniel M. Suleiman, | Title: STUDENTS IN THE HALL | 10/26/1996 | See Source »

...lesbian community, pulled a radio ad titled "Values" that had been targeting religious conservatives. That this group was targeted in the first place is a sign of the Democrats embrace of mainstream values after years of wandering in the wilderness of anti-religious bias. The fact that precious campaign dollars are expended in the quest to win over these voters is an indication of the president's political strength and rejuvenation. Yet, the message of this ad turned its back on everything that has gotten Bill Clinton to this point and was a black smear on his presidency...

Author: By Andrei H. Cherny, | Title: Clinton's Wrong Values | 10/24/1996 | See Source »

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