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...Harryhausen's nifty-creaky beasties, but these scenes consume perhaps 15 mins. of a two-hr. movie. The rest is a botch, as storytelling or spectacle. First we're up on Olympus in the company of some swank Brit actors - Laurence Olivier as Zeus, Claire Bloom as Hera, Maggie Smith as Thetis - whose contempt for the material, and for themselves for taking this rich but demeaning payday, deprives their readings of either the sizzle of high drama or the florid flounce of high camp. Then we're on earth, in Argos, where the half-god Perseus, Zeus' bastard...
...Staff writer Madeleine Smith can be reached at smith21@college.harvard.edu...
Though Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith has said that the administration will not implement sweeping staff reductions, some department administrators are nevertheless concerned that their constrained budgets will make personnel restructuring inevitable...
...interview last month, Smith said that the FAS administration has not made plans to implement “across-the-board staff cuts,” but he conceded that departments will face smaller budgets and “people may be cut because of changes...
...It’s really clear that the ideas within the FAS are what are fueling us here,” Smith said at the meeting, adding that the “strategy” for budgeting had not changed despite the optimistic budget figures...