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...Fitness magazine relationship columnist teamed up with a Harvard Medical School psychiatrist to discuss “Race and Female Body Image” in Emerson Hall last night. The event, sponsored by the Harvard Foundation and the Harvard College Women’s Center, featured author Sil Lai Abrams, of mixed Chinese and African ethnicity, and Anne E. Becker ’83, director of Mass. General Hospital’s Eating Disorders Program, along with a panel of Harvard students. The speakers discussed issues ranging from female body image insecurities, stirred by media glamorization of picture-perfect models...
...creature, hatched in the test-tube mating of an alien intelligence and a human ovum, is called Sil. As embodied by model Natasha Henstridge, Sil has a voluptuously thin form and a face--severe and curiously bland--that never reveals its secrets. That's perfect for Species, since the audience's sympathies are meant to shift uneasily between the determination of a crack search team to keep the creature from reproducing and the desire of Sil to increase and multiply, engulf and devour. So Sil goes cruising L.A. bars. A gorgeous blond who just wants sex shouldn't have trouble...
...while, director Roger Donaldson (No Way Out) keeps it all working smartly, like a serrated knife on the viewer's nerves. And the creature creators, H.R. Giger and Richard Edlund, make Sil in her alien mode look variously like evil pudding and a spiny octopus. The monster isn't the problem here; it's the humans, Sil's pursuers, who make Species turn specious. One of them (Forest Whitaker) is an "empath" who can intuit everything about Sil--her moods, motives and fears--everything except that she's standing right behind him. Alfred Molina, playing an expert in cross cultures...
Well, if smart people didn't do stupid things, there wouldn't be horror movies. And for those who indulge its inanities, this 2-D alien encounter has some final surprises, including its own baby boom. Watch out, folks. Sil has a baby. Boom...
Steve Redgrave, the Briton who is trying to become the most successful oarsman of all time, won twice. Redgrave, winner of gold medals at three successive Olympics and aiming for a fourth in Atlanta, took the coxless pairs with fellow Barcelona gold medalist Matthew Pinsent in the Sil- ver Goblets and Nickalls...