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This impulse was vain, of course, in two meanings of the word, if also understandably, foolishly human. Ennobling myths and fairy tales are not passed on through the knickknacks of heroes and heroines...
Sharon Stone is the latest entrant in the Streepstakes; she plays a death-row inmate in Bruce Beresford's Last Dance. In vain would we tell her that the world has a surfeit of good actresses but damn few movie stars and that she is one of the rare modern avatars of the grand old radiance. Acting is easy, glamour is hard. But Stone wants more than to make sin chic. To increase her stature, she must diminish her luster. And so she has chosen the sort of caged-woman melodrama--but with a message--that, when Susan Hayward tried...
...Even after the official request had been made and acknowledged by Israel, one to two minutes into the barrage, the guns kept firing. Says U.N. spokesman Timor Goksel: "We asked Israel several times to stop firing on the Fijian headquarters, telling them that we had civilian victims, but in vain...
...MOVIES . . . LAST DANCE: Sharon Stone is the latest in a long line of stars who want to be known as actresses. "In vain would we tell her that the world has a surfeit of good actresses but damn few movie stars and that she is one of the rare modern avatars of the grand old radiance," says TIME's Richard Corliss. "Acting is easy, glamour is hard." But Stone wants more than to make sin chic. To increase her stature, she must diminish her luster. And so she has chosen the sort of caged-woman melodrama?but with a message -->
McFadden criticized the council for "playing politics with the time and trust of the students," but then said "if the campaign does any good, if it offers any services, then this campaign will not have been in vain...