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Uses of Enchantment is the story of Richard Raymond (Jonathan Weinberg), a biochemistry professor who, on the eve of receiving Harvard's Littauer award, is gripped by the need for introspection. Through a series of flashbacks, the audience meets: Darryl Parsons (Justin Levitt), Raymond's high school lab partner and companion for Dungeons and Dragons; Raymond's father (Theodore Hong), who quizzes the boy orally on SAT math questions; Darryl's father (Austin Grossman) and Raymond's teenage blind date, Renee Davis (Bianca Hovey...
...fact, several Black students with liberal political orientations maintain that Thomas's race alone is not enough for them to favor his confirmation. Darryl Blane Brooks, a fourth-year graduate student at the Law School and the Kennedy School of Government, says "My strong sentiment is that I would vote against...
...been Home Alone, Ghost and Pretty Woman, with nary a bankable star (though Pretty Woman turned Roberts into one). They were simple tales about people who change: the old stuff of drama, and of Hollywood in the decades when its tinsel glistened like gold. Richard Zanuck quotes his father Darryl, longtime pasha of 20th Century Fox, as saying success in movies boils down to three things: "story, story, story." Zanuck is an independent producer who has defied industry logic and made hits without big stars: Jaws, Cocoon, Driving Miss Daisy. As he notes with wry pride, "I'm a throwback...
...that as it may, the movie, which Scott (Alien, Blade Runner) eventually decided to direct himself, starts out in a low, ingratiating gear. It looks like a "buddy romp," as Geena Davis, who plays Thelma, puts it. Thelma is married to a carpet salesman named Darryl, who represents everything stupid and stupefying about traditional masculinity, keeping Thelma in a state of near childish dependency. Her best pal, Louise (Susan Sarandon), lives with an oft traveling musician named Jimmy, who is nice enough but suffers from the other great modern male defect -- a maddening inability to make permanent commitments. Both women...
...sensitive to cyclical swings in business activity are hard pressed to notice any improvements yet. The hotel business has suffered deeply as such corporate giants as IBM and AT&T have slashed their travel budgets to hold down costs. "Our company logo ought to be SURVIVE TILL '95," says Darryl Hartley-Leonard, president of the Hyatt chain. "We cannot assume that this is just the typical business cycle of an American recession. In my 27 years in the business, I've never seen anything like this...