Word: vitae
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mostly in southern Italy, Minghella's tantalizing movie captures the pulse, temperature and texture of the idle rich at play and the yearning of Ripley, who wants that good life so much he'd kill for it. Inhabiting this very dolce vita is a quintet of smart-looking young performers--Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Cate Blanchett, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Jack Davenport--giving vigorous life and fine shading to roles of wealth or breeding. They parade their star quality (or supporting-actor quality) not by screaming and cussing Method style but by radiating an unforced glamour that recalls Hollywood...
...trace a rake's progress from callow kid to elegant arriviste. "Wonderful to sit in a famous cafe," he thinks after his first murder, "and to think of tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow being Dickie Greenleaf!" For all his tomorrows, Tom gets to steep himself in la Dickie vita. He lives in a fine house near Paris with a handsome blond wife who is blessedly indifferent to his shadier activities. From Dickie's estate and from the profits of an art-forgery racket, Tom has an income that gives him the leisure to paint, garden and commit the odd homicide...
...bottom by tensioned weights, Panel #2's chromatic range is now a pale blue denim rinse. Before its deterioration, the painting was of a fabled crimson complexion. Rothko's Harvard murals have been deemed "damaged goods" by the cynics, but more optimistic critics would use the term vita brevis, ars brevis, the aesthetic embodiment of the fragility and impermanence of art and life represented...
...loss of Vita Redding, a first team All-Ivy player and Brown's all-time leading scorer, will be too much for the Bears (12-14, 7-7, t-4th) to overcome. The Bears are expected to fall off considerably...
...conspirators who couldn't tolerate their love affair. Fayed doesn't believe the official story - that the wreck was the result of driver Henri Paul's excessive drinking beforehand - and may try to tie the photographers back to the deaths. But for the paparazzi long under a cloud, vita is finally starting to look a little more dolce...