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...part of this quest, Gates said, "I had a two-foot Afro. It was the baddest Afro at Yale...
...again leaves his comedic training behind him in his role as Chris Nielsen, who dies in a car accident and must travel from heaven to hell to save his wife (Annabella Sciorra) after she commits suicide in despair. The premise is fraught with difficulties. Although the plot is standard quest situation, it also demands that the film deal with questions of religion, God and the afterlife. The screenplay by Ron Bass gives the standard Hollywood compromise that eliminates God from the proceedings. By setting the film on earth, City of Angels and Ghost could avoid making definite spiritual claims...
...quest to land a national political convention, the rules of campaign propriety are routinely sacrificed...
Gautum Mukunda's flawed analysis of the historian's craft misinterprets both a student's moral burdens and what it means to be an American (Opinion, Sept. 28). In the first place, the study of history is not a quest for moralistic lessons that great people can later draw on as inspiration for their own feats. It is the quest for the truth of what happened in the past. Great people tend to draw their own lessons. Mukunda's jingoistic interpretation of the American ideal obscures this quest for truth and limits it to the American sphere of intellectual tradition...
...fashion statements as for her athletic exploits. At the 1988 Olympic trials, she wore a purple body suit without a left pant leg. For the Olympics of that same year, she painted three of her fingernails red, white and blue, and a fourth one gold to symbolize her quest...