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...gets my vote for Best Picture. It's well-written, well-acted, and just plain well done. Robin Williams, reprising his mentor role from "Dead Poet's Society," is brilliant, as usual, and gained a Best Supporting Actor nomination for his efforts. Matt Damon (Best Actor nominee) plays with wit and skill the tough kid from South Boston who's really a genius. But the real reason I loved "Good Will Hunting" is that even before I entered the theater, I felt like I had some stake...
...daughter of novelist Jim Harrison) is something of an anomaly herself: a mystery writer who's not only literate and handy with a plot but possessed of a voice and a vision as well. Her off-the-cuff eloquence and easy sarcasm remind one of a small-town courthouse wit, loitering on the steps with a cigarette, flipping digs at starchy passersby. Her supporting characters and assorted suspects, from a snippety lady historian to a blowsy, big-boned social worker, aren't merely fictional head shots. They have body. Stuck way out on the windy plains together, their passions, flaws...
...pencil scratchwork may in the end have no choice but to download the puzzle from the Times's Web site. Still, the principle behind the crossword will remain the same that it has been since its inception at the beginning of the century: a daily challenge of knowledge and wit for those who need some mental downtime or distraction from the banalities of daily life and work. Whether we're taking about train-bound commuters or bored students in Sanders Theatre, there will always be a market for minds in need of a good game. And the beauty...
...content with the humbler task of satisfying the curiosity of our readers about what is going on in Cambridge, and at other colleges, and of giving them an opportunity to express their ideas upon practical questions. It ought to be added perhaps, that, while we made no pretension to wit, we hope not to be dull. There will be several poems and lighter sketches to prevent any impressions of heaviness...
...15th year of her affliction, her 90th of living, she has become an exhibit in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Come see the former junior high school English teacher, wit, storyteller and singer to children transformed before your very eyes into a sphinx. Yet she is still a great beauty, ladies and gentlemen. The silver hair, the smooth pink skin. Go ahead and touch her. She won't bite. (Then again, she might...