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Baird Professor of Science Gary J. Feldman, whowill be teaching "Time" this fall, said thechallenge of teaching this course would be to"take rather profound ideas and explain them in asimple...
...than a few flings with TV. (Who could forget the immortal My Two Dads?) But The Mod Squad is his first experience with a movie made from a TV show. His approach? Take it all very seriously. "Even if I do a porno movie, I want it to be profound," he says. But he and co-stars CLAIRE DANES and OMAR EPPS, left, have their work cut out for them if they want profundity from a remake of The Mod Squad, one of the most delightfully cheesy shows ever to grace our blinking blue screens. How serious...
...devastating and realistic portrayal of wartime violence in Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan had a profound effect on me [CINEMA, July 27]. With each shot, sound, struggle and death, I felt like jumping up and screaming, "Stop!" And I couldn't leave, because even as a viewer I felt I would let the troops down. I left the theater trembling and in a cold sweat. This movie should be seen only by people who are desensitized to violence and those who don't appreciate what all those who have fought in wars have sacrificed. Spielberg has constructed a compelling...
...four summers now, I have not been able to leave Harvard Square, or at least not venture more than a few miles away from it. With every painfully un-airconditioned June, I have burst into my temporary new life with enthusiasm, tons of clean underwear and the profound realization that I may have made many stupid mistakes the summer before, but that was a year ago and I know everything now. And with the dawning of every September, I inevitably slink back into the dining hall with a fresh new haircut and a matching set of regrets...
...first attended the Abbey of the Genesee last November, disagrees. "First of all," he says, "unlike est, they let you go to the bathroom. This has an authenticity to it. It was not manufactured 15 weeks ago for your consumption today. Three weeks later, it was still profound." In fact, say the sanctuaries, participants want less of the progressive offerings like Jungian theory, preferring guidance in basics such as prayer...