Word: tellings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tell you the truth, most people were pretty oblivious," said Mather House Committee Chair Wendy M. Lu '00 about the decision, which Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 made formal in letters he sent to students last week...
...will compete in the Games who has an additional explanation for the absence of other stars of long ago. "Part of the reason may be that they are just worn out," he says. The ordeals of a young superathlete's training and competition have an aftermath. "I can tell you that my bones, my joints, my muscles hurt," says Mulkey...
...original Star Wars was a groundbreaking movie. Special effects aside, never before had the world seen what was essentially a kid's story told with such earnestness and excitement on the big screen. For better or worse, Lucas revolutionized the film industry, making the telling of myths and fables not only acceptable, but also extremely lucrative. But if Hollywood storytelling is going to be revolutionized again today, Lucas is not the one to do it. And The Phantom Menace was certainly not the movie to do it. It's not that it is a bad movie. For all the critics...
That's the trouble with beauty: it may be satisfying, but it's pedestrian. It is not the worst thing to content yourself with an image that almost speaks, but this beauty can't tell you anything that you don't already know. American Beauty isn't merely skin deep, but it never quite cuts to the bone...
...terribly cheesy but wonderfully entertaining 1968 film starring Jane Fonda; Fonda vamped it up as an astronaut in the 41st century trying to save a positronic ray. Audiences ate it up. Drew Barrymore has signed on for a remake, but the new Barbarella will dump the camp factor and tell a very serious scientific story about this positronic ray. No one is going to care. It will just be another embarrassment--like The Mod Squad and Lost in Space which were remade as "straight" stories. Bah. Both films stunk. They didn't have the camp factor, they didn't have...