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...setters, the Von Bulows seem positively Ruritanian -- starched anachronisms, prisoners of good taste when hardly anyone else bothers. So screenwriter Nicholas Kazan and director Barbet Schroeder have woven a cunningly old-fashioned artifice -- a drawing-room comedy with a toxic tinge ^ -- told from three points of view. Alan (Ron Silver) is the detective, groping for a truth he may never know or, knowing, accept. Claus (Jeremy Irons) is the cagey chameleon, resigned to a notoriety he also enjoys. "I'm wondering," Alan muses, "who you are," and Claus replies, "Who would you like me to be?" And Sunny (Glenn Close...
...that caters to the rich and the elderly rather than to the young. A growing number of parents with preschool children are in the workplace, but there is still no adequate system of child care, and parental leaves are hard to come by. Mothers and fathers worry about the toxic residue left from too much television, too many ghastly movies, too many violent video games, too little discipline. They wonder how to raise children who are strong and imaginative and loving. They worry about the possibility that their children will grow wild and distant and angry. Perhaps they fear most...
Editors' note: The issue of abnormally high concentrations of toxic compounds in Harvard water was raised in several Crimson editorials last spring. In these editorials, we noted--as Mr. Vautin states--that utilities managers across the University knew about the water problem. Our editorial asked why that health information never reached the vast majority of students, faculty and staff. Our use of the word "silent" referred to administrators' (lack of) communication with students, faculty and staff--not to any paucity of memos among themselves...
...prevails and Henry & June is released as is, its ads can run a money quote: "A masterpiece! Don't cut a frame of it!" What movie critic proffered that rave? Richard Heffner, head of the rating board, who made those comments to Kaufman as he awarded the film its toxic...
...quite a few years ago now." A big prosperous food-canning factory that my grandfather and some other townsmen started in the '20s petered out, I learn, in the early '70s. A steel- fabricating plant operated there for a few years, then went belly up, and now a toxic-waste cleanup putters along in a clutter of rusted metal. Ellsworth Lake is still where it was when my father and I would shove off at first light in a borrowed rowboat, seats slicked by dew, to fish for perch and crappies with bamboo poles and worms. Now a friendly fellow...