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Glazeroff enjoys the I.M. program, but he says that sometimes it's tough being involved in one of the College's weakest programs...
Division III Babson, the weakest opponent onthe Crimson's schedule, seemed like the perfectmedicine: an opportunity for an explosive win thatwould set the tone for the rest of the season...
Amid the acclaim for Guys and Dolls and the rest of this exceptional season can be heard Broadway's perpetual murmur of nervous discontent. The wealth of new shows, a third more than last season, creates a competitive scrabble that may kill off the weakest. The new entries are also putting pressure on holdover shows, like The Will Rogers Follies and The Secret Garden, that need another season to pay back investors. Off-Broadway too has been hard hit, hemorrhaging audiences to the abundance uptown...
...older tradition, that of the allegorical table piece, the vanitas paintings that were so popular in the Netherlands in the 17th century. In them the lowly objects of still-life painting become allegories of the senses or, with a skull and some musty books, of death. Where Harnett is weakest and most derivative is, precisely, where he tried to tell his stories. He liked mild, kitschy allegorizing. His invocations of the past (the classical bronze and the broken copy of Cervantes' Don Quixote in The Old Cupboard Door, 1889, for instance) are parlor antiquarianism with nothing to say about history...
...things considered, though, Sleepwalkers is total trash. With the cheesy dialogue and a plot that doesn't manage a single twist or turn (a must for even the weakest horror movie), even its occasional moments of interest fail to impress...