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...cinemetography is good, direction OK. The closing scenes (namely McKellen's acting) make me cry. I shiver as the cold numbers (the "Butcher's Bill"), like ticker tape, flash periodically at the bottom of the screen. Elton John's "The Last Song" haunts me. Reagan's inglorious ascent parallels perfectly the disease's inaugural progress. Gays are bestowed some sympathetic representation. Best line: "I'm not afraid of dying anymore. I'm afraid for the people who live...

Author: By W. TATE Dougherty, | Title: HBO and HIV And the Band Played On | 10/7/1993 | See Source »

...that eludes Hang for most of her childhood; she does not fully understand why she is constantly made to feel ashamed. At one point, Hang cries, "I didn't dare ask [my mother] if, in another ten years, I would live her life, this life. The thought made me shiver...

Author: By Amy THANH Nguyen, | Title: Paradise of the Blind: Surviving the Inner War | 5/14/1993 | See Source »

...holiday spirit moves you, gentle reader, send me a Christmas present. I live in Winthrop House, room E-24. Or stop by and watch me light Hannukah candles for eight nights starting next Saturday, while I shiver in an unheated suite slaving away over my thesis while everyone else has flown home to frolic in the snow...

Author: By Eric R. Columbus, | Title: My Santa's No Secret | 12/11/1992 | See Source »

...keep out freshmen. Buried in the story's jumps is a sentence stating that "some upper-class students said that barricading the doors was actually an effort to reduce drafts." When the doors in question are opened, the accompanying gust of wind makes people at nearby tables shiver. In winter our superintendent posts a sign stating that the doors are not to be used. The recent cold snap was unusually early, and the sign...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Only Half the Story | 10/28/1992 | See Source »

...many as in the Winter Games), the highest number of television viewers (a projected 3.5 billion). But numbers did scant justice to emotions: to the sense of quiet pleasure as one of the first teams to enter was South Africa, here after a 32-year absence; to the shiver of unease as Iran alone paraded behind a man, not a woman, bearing its name; to the bewilderment that met the Unified Team, amid its cacophony of 12 republics' flags. And when Bosnia-Herzegovina appeared, after an eleventh-hour entry, people rose spontaneously around the stands to cheer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Benvinguts to the Catalan Games! | 8/3/1992 | See Source »

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