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...wasn't just ROTC as ROTC. It was the whole bloody thing," remembers Associate Dean of Freshmen W.C. Burriess Young '55, who held the same pot in 1969. "It was a war where we were being butchered. It had everything bad. Everything that was wrong was locked up in the Yard...
Will it really be possible to make a melting pot of the world and still preserve each religion, language and custom, and appreciate them to the extent we would if the world were composed of individually strong cultures? The answer is an emphatic...
When it comes to gore, The Stand is more restrained than most King horror shows, but its metaphysical flights are prodigal. Dreams and visions abound, and the demonic villain has supernatural powers of indeterminate nature. King can't resist throwing everything into the pot. A TV movie about the apocalypse can get away with quoting Eliot ("This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper") or Yeats ("What rough beast . . . slouches towards Bethlehem?"), but probably not both. Still, even when The Stand skirts tedium and pretentiousness, King is a rough beast that TV is lucky...
Some projects are better left unfinished, especially when they die as miserably as "The Hudsucker Proxy" does. For all the great moments of the first half, the only good things about the second half of this hapless flick is the bounty comparisons it begs. For instance, unlike the fresh pot of coffee you will need to revive yourself when the credits roll, this ill-conceived attempt from director Joel and Ethan Coen tastes more like the four day-old black sludge forgotten on the kitchen counter--bitter, could and best thrown...
...Paquin, who played Holly Hunter's charming, willful child in The Piano, made all the difference. And whoever gambled that an 11-year-old New Zealander with no previous acting experience would beat out Emma Thompson, Holly Hunter, Winona Ryder and Rosie Perez deserved to collect the pot...