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...comes from Dashiell Hammett) works terse, elegant variations on a theme as old as the Fall; it subverts the film noir genre in order to revitalize it; it offers the satisfactions and surprises of a conniving visual style. Most important, it displays the whirligig wit of two young men--Joel Coen, 30, a graduate of New York University film school, and his brother Ethan, 27--in a debut film as scarifyingly assured as any since Orson Welles was just this wide...
Although Delbanco said that no decisions about his career at Harvard have been made, Joel Porte, vice-chairman of the Harvard English Department, suggested that he might have taken the job at Columbia because of the number of professors already tenured in Harvard's American Studies Program. "We can't keep everybody we'd like to keep, and there simply isn't a place [for Delbanco]" Porte said...
...Joel M. Sooby Sacramento
...long as there have been secret agents, officials have had to weigh two conflicting considerations: the importance of trying accused spies and the risk such trials pose to national security. In the view of intelligence agencies, courtroom disclosures can sometimes be as damaging as the original espionage. Says Joel Levine, a former federal prosecutor with spy-trial experience: "There's always a push-pull relationship between Government agencies, one desirous of prosecuting, one desirous of preserving intelligence...
...Small Affair begins as the chronicle of an obsession but insists on dragging Charles beyond that, Charles could easily stay a cynic, pick up Joel's sunglasses, and say, every now and then, what the... But it cannot. Fantasy cannot be allowed to stay fantasy. (Last summer's Oxford Blues, for all the brashness of Nick (Rob Lowe) could at least keep that line clear. His love, a model spotted by a different lens, purred. "It was a wonderful night, but it was only a night. But we can still be friends." Said a pouting Nick: "You were never...