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...Harvard women's tennis team took control of the Ivy League race by Pounding Cornell to a Big Red pulp Saturday afternoon at Palmer Dixon Tennis Courts...
Welles' narration technique set a standard for all films to follow; anyone who believes that "Pulp Fiction" was the first film with a nonlinear plot should take a front row seat at the Brattle on Monday night. The film is told, in present and past, as a quest for the elusive element that drove him through his triumphs and to his downfall. The only clue is Kane's dying word, "a piece in a jigsaw puzzle": "Rosebud...
...bring in the stenographer for a full confession. At a time when storytelling has largely been ceded to film-makers--when Pulp Fiction causes more chatter than pulp fiction--American Tabloid is a big, boisterous, rude and shameless reminder of why reading can be so engrossing and so much fun. The secret, of course, is language. When it is used well-which in Ellroy's case means being pared down to taut, telegraphic sentences, subject-verb-blooey!-one word is worth a thousand pictures...
Gump Beats Pulp Outta Fiction...
Ending weeks of Oscar hype with an unsuspenseful flourish, favorite Forrest Gump topped contender Pulp Fiction for Best Picture, winning a grand total of six awards to Pulp's lone statuette. Tom Hanks (Gump) was Best Actor and Jessica Lange (Blue Sky) Best Actress; Martin Landau (Ed Wood) and Dianne Wiest (Bullets over Broadway) took Supporting honors...