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...comments about early decision, Yale sent a stern message that having its admissions office undercut was not part of its vision of working toward a new early admissions system. “It is important to reach respectful consensus rather than take unilateral action,” said Richard Shaw, Yale’s dean of admissions...

Author: By Dan Rosenheck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Early Derision | 10/3/2002 | See Source »

...kind of moment Democrats love. Carol Roberts is running for the U.S. House of Representatives against Republican Clay Shaw. She thinks she can win because a Democrat nearly beat Shaw last time and she has the prescription-drug issue in her quiver. So the Palm Beach County commissioner fired up a controversial TV ad last week. Roberts appears with four seniors in the 30-second spot, pitching a phone number that advises seniors how to save money by filling their prescriptions in Canada via the Internet. (The number connects to her campaign and is designed to be a lure.) Shaw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election 2002: Finding A Winning Tune | 9/23/2002 | See Source »

...camerawork, borrows enthusiastically from combat cinema's archives. One scene will be shot in the flickery black-and-white of the Godzilla genre, another will unfold entirely in Japanese anim?. Tarantino even sent his cinematographer, Oscar winner Bob Richardson (Platoon, JFK, Wall Street), lists of must-see Samurai and Shaw Brothers' classics like Five Fingers of Death and One Armed Swordsman as a pre-production crash course in the camerawork of the kick-flick canon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blood Sport | 9/9/2002 | See Source »

...Vaseline in the history of cinema." Whereas in other screenplays the words "they fight" would suffice, Tarantino devotes most of the script?which took him nearly two years to complete?to outlining the action. He lays out precise requirements, dictating which historical genres are to be evoked ("a Shaw Brothers' snap zoom ... a spaghetti western flashback") and when exactly "the squirting, spewing geysers of blood" must turn "from crimson red to oil black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blood Sport | 9/9/2002 | See Source »

August is usually the dreariest month for Broadway openings, a time for boring Shaw revivals and quirky little musicals that want to sneak in and out of town before the real blockbusters arrive in the fall. But the buzz over a quirky little musical called Hairspray is providing a rare lift for Broadway's dog days. Based on John Waters' 1988 cult film about an overweight, twist-era teenager who fights for racial integration on the dance floor, the show got ecstatic reviews during its pre-Broadway run in Seattle. Now, as its Aug. 15 opening approaches, theater insiders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Hair...Big Hit? | 8/12/2002 | See Source »

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