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Lavin's special fondness for Kevin does not go unrecognized by the frightful eyes of the other boys. When Kevin is called to see Lavin in his office each night, the boys give each other knowing glances. Yet their inability to do anything in the face of this authority is...
The last movement of the Sibelius has been described as a "Polonaise for polar bears," but those seeking robust playing should look elsewhere. Rather than the incessant, almost primitive drive of Heifetz or even Oistrakh, one finds a laid-back and almost casual interpretation here, with Midori deferring almost immediately...
Only 8.8 percent of the University's tenured faculty are women, according to the alumnae committee report. That translates 94 women in a pool of 1074 tenured professors.
Here we go again -- another gore gourmand acting out fantasies of aggression for the grind-house trade. Well, no. For a start, Tarantino's films are energized not so much by violence as by its threat; it's in the air like a balloon ready to explode. More important, Tarantino...
Blessed by his bloodlines, Edward Moore Kennedy should have been able to count on the adjective "incumbent" as a perpetual political heirloom. Even in this season of electoral discontent with the vagaries and pomposities of politics, his Kennedy and Fitzgerald legacy retains magic. In spite of scandal, the Senator still...