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Sheila C. Barron '89, who frequently plays Transylvania with its tour of a sylvan world, says "The game is only a diversion, and kind of disappointing because it's less imaginative than you like. There's a haunting monotony to it; I keep playing just because I get so frustrated I can't stop...
Both men are legendary soldiers who have survived long years in Viet Nam -- Elias by a kind of supernal sylvan grace, Barnes by simply refusing to die. Elias is Jesus crossed with Jim Morrison. He will literally take a load off Chris' shoulders, or share a fraternal toke with Chris through the barrel of a rifle, or moon over the night stars, or smile ingenuously at his killer. He is hard to know and harder to destroy, a creature of Stone's wild literary sentiment. Barnes, who says of some fresh corpses, "Tag 'em and bag 'em," has no sentiment...
...unfulfilled ambitions? The execution is not quite so imaginative as the premise. Tom (John Cullum) and Huck (George C. Scott) are both using assumed names, so it takes a long, creaky while for them to acknowledge each other as they circle the riverbank lookout of Michael Miller's evocatively sylvan set. Their reminiscences are not rich enough: it would help if they had led more complicated lives...
...only seven Reading Game centers under franchise. "It's not like selling hamburgers," he says. His competition, by contrast, has gone predominantly into franchises, and all three companies are offering or moving into subjects such as writing, speed writing and algebra. The cost of setting up a franchise with Sylvan or Huntington is around $50,000 to $100,000, depending on size. The typical licensee is a businessman; Huntington Founder Ray Huntington was a business analyst for AT&T. Sylvan's president Berry Fowler, however, was a junior high art teacher until he switched to tutoring...
...teaching centers seem one of those ideas that please just about everybody, including businessmen: last year Sylvan was taken over by a child- care conglomerate called Kinder-Care Learning Centers, Inc. for $5.2 million in stock (some $3 million for Fowler). And Encyclopedia Britannica absorbed Reading Game for an undisclosed price. Huntington remains independent, its owner ebullient about the future of teaching for profit. "It's an American response to an academic problem," he says. "You can solve this problem and make money...