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Frye and Barbaro's course, entitled "Buddhism in Central Sia from Asoka to the Mongols," will focus on the "history and evolution of Buddhism as it went on the Silk Road from India to China," Barbaro said...
...There are ranker implausibilities, and sadder ironies, in this egregious comedy-drama. Life and death, both contrived, salt the plot; the dialogue freezes in the actors' mouths like psychobabble on a stick; the picture remains immune even to another silk-purse performance by Lahti, the American cinema's best hope for a smart, mature, vulnerable funny woman of the '80s. Mary Tyler Moore carried that standard handsomely through the '70s in a sitcom co-created by Allan Burns, who wrote and directed Just Between Friends. To see them flail here is like running into your dream girl a decade later...
Gielgud directed a Hamlet in which Guinness had a small part, and he can still hear that berating voice -- "like a silver trumpet muffled in silk." "Go away," he told Guinness crossly. "Come back in a week. Get someone to teach you how to act." Guinness did nothing except mope for seven days, but his absence was enough. Gielgud was now delighted with the young actor's new interpretation...
...contra bases consists largely of waiting for meals and intermittent training sessions. From the camps in Costa Rica, the rebels have launched few attacks and seem to spend most of their time fighting the mosquitoes. At the Costa Rican camp run by Fernando Chamorro Rapacciola, the officers practice silk-glove military discipline: "If we are too hard on them, they will leave," says Chamorro with a rueful smile...
...almost a half-century, the sound of the Philadelphia Orchestra under Conductor Eugene Ormandy was one of the most gloriously distinctive in music. Inheriting a spirited ensemble from his flamboyant predecessor, Leopold Stokowski, Ormandy refined it until the strings turned to silk, the woodwinds to amber, the brass to gold. If Ormandy's interpretations of safe repertory standards such as Beethoven and Brahms symphonies were not always individual, the ravishing tonal beauty of his orchestra was often reward enough. "The Philadelphia sound -- it's me!" Ormandy said proudly, and it was less a boast than a statement of fact...