Word: romanticize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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In a poll taken by The Crimson, undergraduates--while applauding the quality of their academic and extracurricular experiences--painted a far from pretty picture of Harvard life in the broader sense. Sixty-four percent of students reported that they stay home to do homework on Friday or Saturday nights, either...
The final scenes are also Stoppard's, and, like his Will, he was rewriting the ending practically until the moment of filming. "We seemed to have a romantic comedy where the boy didn't get the girl," Stoppard explains. "This troubled people, but the whole point was that the experience...
The desire to hunt for Stoppard's touch is understandable. The playwright, who was born in Czechoslovakia in 1937 and educated in India and England, catapulted to fame with a different Shakespearean work: the 1967 play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, an existential reimagining of two characters from Hamlet. Since...
For Brassai it wasn't always a matter of posing people so much as positioning his camera before them and waiting for them to assume the configurations he was looking for. What he wanted were archetypal scenes of Paris life in which the people were not caught in motion but...
The movie, therefore, makes not much more of Jackie's unusual sexual requirements (and her relatives' bland acquiescence in them) than it does of the fact that she sends her dirty laundry home from Moscow for her mother to wash. Genius, you see, must be accommodated on many levels. This...