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...beginning of school nears, the Harvard faculty brainstorms new courses that won't be too taxing on students or the teaching fellows assigned to devise the curricula: "Class Struggles in the Saturday Morning Cartoon", nicknamed "Pee Wee's Politburo;" "Your Friend the Immune System," otherwise known as "Cells are Swell" and "The Concept of Adonis in Southern California Beach Volleyball"--nicknamed "California Coolers...
...biography or news report or memory -- is distorted, if only by one's perceptions. To create art is to pour fact into form; and sometimes the form shapes the facts. William Randolph Hearst never said "Rosebud," and Evita Peron didn't sing pop, and Richard III was probably a swell guy, no matter how Shakespeare libeled him. This is what artists do: shape ideas and grudges and emotions into words and sounds and pictures. They see "historical accuracy" as a creature of ideological fashion. Artists take the long view; they figure their visions can outlast political revisionism...
BEETLEJUICE The feel-weird movie of '88. Director Tim Burton's supernatural jape features comic-book ingenuity, a swell turn by Michael Keaton as a punk demon, and a delirious calypso sound track. Day-O will never sound the same...
Second thought: Looking over the program notes: Oh swell, it's an adaptation. This could be a tragedy in more ways than...
Three-pointers: House 3, Peabody 4; Gielen 5. Rebounds: Brandeis 26 (Swell 8), Harvard 24 (Mitchell 7). Assists: Brandeis 9 (Greenaway 2, Swell 2, Peabody 2), Harvard 18 (Smith 6) Blocked Shots: Brandeis 0, Harvard 2 (Mitchell, Hollensteiner). Total fouls: Brandeis 23, Harvard 15. Fouled out: Swell. Turnovers: Brandeis 17, Harvard...