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Cain argues the existence of this intrepid rebel skilfully, somehow fitting all Ophelia's lines into the mold. This Ophelia never loses Hamlet's love but inexplicably goes mad when he is sent to England. To make this scenario convincing, though, Cain must stiflesome of the play's most exquisite and poisonous scenes--the ones in which Hamlet, supposedly mad, repudiates Ophelia and insults her. Cain relocates the first crucial Hamlet-Ophelia scene to the middle of the night, reckless of chronology--putting both players in nightclothes, reducing the acerbic dialogue to lovers' quips, and smothering unambiguous lines, such...
...Star Wars. Crash of the Titans. Malice in Blunderland. The Gizzard of Odd. Is this what Gilliam and Palin had in mind? A nasty fantasy, an antiepic, a revisionist fable? Seems so: surely the pair of Pythonians who concocted this ragged film knew what they were about. If the scenario dismisses good ideas and stretches bad ones, if the comic timing in some sequences seems laboriously off, if the film manages to alienate the audience that might have been attracted to it-well, Gilliam and Palin must have wanted it that...
Though the Corporation will not determine precise figures until early winter, Dean Rosovsky predicted this week costs will rise "at least" as fast as last year's. Under that scenario, tuition would jump from today...
They often cite the scenario of the highly motivated athlete who has most probably experienced not just athletic, but academic success in high school. Once here that student is thrown into a melting pot of similar success stories and--probably for the first time in his life--finds himself sitting on the bench. It's hard to take, and often quitting is easier than admitting one's own limitations...
...Harvard women's soccer team's 4-2 loss to UConn yesterday afternoon was not the scenario the booters had planned...