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Mulhearn's Biff matches Holbrook's Willy blow for blow. His character's psychological simplicity cannot subvert the complexity and fire Mulhearn infuses in his performance. Even when it's painfully evident why he does everything he does (e.g. he steals because his father taught him to), his emotional turmoil is still affecting...
...episodic format of the movie, loosely following Travis's readings from a journal he keeps, allows us to trace not only Travis's actions, but also the world he deals with so poorly. Young and charming, giving no indication of his inner turmoil, De Niro's Travis enters the senator's campaign office to proclaim with boyish impetuousness that Betsy is the most beautiful person has ever seen. Yet even here warning signs lurk, as in the way he carefully details exactly what he and Betsy have on their little coffee shop date. Travis's bizarre hypocrisy emerges when...
...nation stood on the verge of the Civil War when Harvard President C.C. Felton presented his report for the academic year 1859-60. In the midst of this national turmoil, he and others saw a need for colleges and universities to provide an education based on experience with different kinds of people, in the hope of overcoming regional, cultural, and other barriers...
...dean wanted to enhance the diversity of student and faculty interests, strengthen the education offered to under-graduates and recreate as much as possible the sense of community he believed was lost in the turmoil of the late 1960s...
GINGRICH MAY BE A THRILLING PERSONality for journalists, but he doesn't deserve the honor. The world views the current budget debate in Congress with disgust. Priorities and personal ambitions are clashing in a troublesome turmoil, and the losers will be the elderly, the sick and the poor. The leaders of Congress--specifically Gingrich--should remember their responsibilities and set a good example. CHRISTOPH BUXTORF Basel, Switzerland...