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...story is a scrutiny of the Harvard admissions process, which is portrayed as a crap shoot. The credentials of the four students are equally impressive; the reader does not know which one Harvard favored until the end of the story. The multi-tiered process of folder reading, rating, and voting on applicants was explained in great detail...
Nowhere in his report does Rudenstine allow that diversity might pose a problem for excellence. A reader would have to infer that possibility from Rudenstine's avoidance of it. In his thinking, the goal of diversity is on a par with excellence or above it. He says that "the need to sustain rigorous academic standards is clear." But he adds that "the more difficult and genuine challenge" is to secure diversity...
...generous gobs in both prosecutor Christopher Darden's In Contempt (ReganBooks; $26), written with Jess Walter, and this week's offering, defense attorney Robert Shapiro's The Search for Justice (Warner Books; $24.95), written with Larkin Warren. There are no bombshells here, but both lawyers take the reader on a breathless you-are-there ride, evoking once again all the emotions of that fevered epoch in this country's history. Which emotions, of course, depends on whose Rashomon-like tale you are reading at the time...
...fact, the film's approach is analogous to reader-response criticism. The movies are studied not so much for their background or technique as for their impact, specifically on homosexual audiences. Those interviewed relate their own experiences, a method much more effective than hearing the speculations of an impersonal narrator. They describe having to forage for gay subtexts and innuendoes in old movies. Even within the range of this subject, we are presented with a wide variety of opinion: Arthur Laurents expresses a deeply felt, almost tearful anger at the movies' stereotypically effeminate caricatures of gay men, while Harvey Fierstein...
Well, there you have it. Stay tuned next Monday to see who wins. But remember, this year, anything goes. As Miramax head Harvey Weinstein said, "We're going to put the bookmakers out of business this year." So, dear reader, you ask, what did Yours Truly put down on her Harvard Dining Services Oscar ballot? Two words: multiple ballots...