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On December 10, Harvard began a road stretch that would eventually span seven games and bring the Crimson to such exotic places such as Fairbanks, Alaska, 10 miles from Canada in upstate New York and Burlington, Vermont. The road seemed to be the only rest and relaxation for the Crimson...
Like most TIME correspondents, David S. Jackson is used to being a stranger in a strange land. During six years of reporting in Africa, the Middle East and Asia, he has survived a sandstorm in Sudan, dodged camels in Saudi Arabia and sampled dog soup in Korea. But it was...
But you can't contain or adequately characterize The Perez Family in a plot summary. For, writer Robin Swicord (Little Women) and director Mira Nair (Mississippi Masala) have crammed their film to bursting with wayward characters and strangely arresting incongruities. Nair has called the movie "an overripe mango," and that...
Cotan's work oscillates between desire and denial. Its fruit and fish and vegetables are more sacramental than gastronomic, emblems of the variety of God's creation (one of Cotan's still lifes contains a chayote from Mexico, an exotic rarity in 16th century Spain). Your eye can't wallow...
Most Exotic Accent: A tie, between the obscure one used by Robin Williams as an obstetrician in Nine Months and the Italianate vocalizing of Meryl Streep as the lonely wife romanced by Clint Eastwood in The Bridges of Madison County.