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...organic substance, which shrinks and decays over time if not stored properly. “A lot of people have old film lying in their attics, basements, or a box somewhere, but it should really be stored in a cool, dry climate,” said Coffey. Amy J. Sloper, Assistant Film Conservator at the HFA, emphasized the importance of storing film for future use. “Film is the most stable medium. Even if you copy it onto VHS or DVD, you should keep the film because you can always go back to it and get it copied...
...doubles side, the fourth-seeded team of Martire-Wang defeated George Mason’s Ballester-Sloper 8-0, Quinnipac’s Piazza-Pasternak 8-6, and UConn’s Adamski-Simcik 8-4 before dropping in the quarterfinals to host Virginia Tech’s own seventh-seeded duo of Kinard...
...more broadly embraceable than James's work, the reason may be that its authors, Ruth and Augustus Goetz, have streamlined and softened a brittle, merciless story into something like exquisite melodrama. The characters, for whom James himself had little affection, have more obvious motivations (the extreme foregrounding of Dr. Sloper's grief for his wife, for example) and higher tides of emotional exclamation ("He must love me, someone must want me," Catherine yells. "I have never had that!"). Moreover, the authors don't ignore that dictum of audience-pleasing, "Let the underdog have her day." In fact, though, this issue...
...what cost? Catherine's behavior in the second act proclaims a cleverness and a sharp pragmatic bent which she has signally lacked beforehand. The Heiress seems to allow Catherine redemption on the condition that she acquire intelligence and agency; like Dr. Sloper himself, the playwrights will do nothing for Catherine so long as she is plain and retiring...
...object of scorn. Simply in retitling the work The Heiress, the Goetzes define Catherine's character through her financial prospects. Nor do we delight in witnessing Catherine exchange her youthful naivete for such a bitter, scaly adulthood. This sour apple doesn't fall far from Dr. Sloper's withered tree...