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...minutes, this film is a model of efficiency and a textbook for narrative film-making. There are no unnecessary scenes or storylines and the plot progresses quickly and confidently. Ford set out to portray simple characters in simple situations, and in "My Darling Clementine" he accomplishes this...
...Twombly is a textbook case of High and Low in one parcel: an Alexandrian painter in love with entropy and yet capable of toughness. He can summon a carnivalesque energy, as in Ferragosto IV, 1961. He enjoys the blooming and buzzing of nature, though his responses to it in recent years -- evocations of the rural hill landscapes around his studio in Gaeta -- are formulaic and hark back to Dubuffet and, earlier, to Soutine's Ceret paintings. The phrases he writes on the canvas are place names and snatches of poetry, done in a faint cursive script that is always...
...Coop has taken steps to soften the blow for student members, including a 10 percent discount on fall textbook purchases. Many students, in fact, will benefit more from this discount than from the now extincl rebate...
...rebate last year was $6.95," said A. Joy McGrath '96. "[The textbook discount] is much better because I spend about $800 on books and now I'm going to get $80 back...
Despite some student satisfaction over the textbook discount, alumni and other non-student Coop members are left without any kind of rebate...