Word: review
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...fact, the benefits review process has been somewhat controversial almost since it started. The all administrator makeup of the task force was a point of contention among Harvard's staff from the beginning...
Branaugh's "Frankenstein" purports to be faithful to the novel (see review below). Adopting a different approach altogether, the dark and mesmerizing "The Spirit of the Beehive" explores the effect of the 1931 "Frankenstein" on a young girl in Franco's Spain during World War II. As the girl becomes deeply involved in a fantasy of the Karloff film, the world surrounding her begins eerily to echo the film. It often resembles a dark version of "Cinema Paradiso," stressing the importance of the child's imagination in creating her personal world. The 1977 new wave classic Eraserhead subjects a version...
...review of campaign finance reports submitted to the Federal Elections Commission reveals that since July, 1, University employees have contributed $10,300 to Romney's campaign, compared to $9500 for Kennedy's re-election effort...
When Quentin Tarantino was 15, he saw something on TV that changed his life: Pauline Kael. The New Yorker movie critic was being grilled by Tomorrow host Tom Snyder on her rave review of Philip Kaufman's Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and she refused to back down. "I thought, Who is this wild old woman?" the writer-director of Pulp Fiction recalls, "and soon I was going to the library to find her books. She was as influential as any director was in helping me develop my aesthetic. I never went to film school, but she was the professor...
Kael was in her 40s before she became a fixture among cinephiles in Berkeley, California, where her criticism appeared in the form of program notes, radio reviews, screeds in the local film magazine. She couldn't have been further out of the loop -- the double helix, really, that embraced Hollywood movies and Manhattan media -- so she devised a piquant strategy for being heard: she would go to a movie and review the audience. Sometimes she'd review the reviewers, a tactic that led to slams on the New York Times' Bosley Crowther and epochal tussles over the auteur theory with...