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Hulce's performance as Nicky is the center of Dominick and Eugene. Nicky's "slowness" is believable, and his unabashed loyalty to and love for his brother make him easy to root for. Hulce also renders Nicky's reactions to encounters with sexuality and with nasty people believable. If you want to see a good performance by the actor who was nominated for an Academy Award for his puerile Mozart, or if you like heart-warming stories with happy endings, then Dominick and Eugene is a film worth seeing...
...residents as "little Podhoretzes" whose land-holdings in Latin America are only outnumbered by their investments in South Africa. I personally am getting a little tired of it, and I wish the staff would be at least more subtle in their bias, if not less biased at root. Paul T. Keenan...
...love of money is the root of all evil. Money cannot buy happiness. Many writers would be abashed at the prospect of wringing anything new or interesting out of these hoary maxims. Not Lewis H. Lapham, the editor of Harper's magazine and a regular contributor to it as well, whose Money and Class in America amusingly roams over the glitzy terrain of contemporary consumerism. Lapham of course rephrases old adages. Radix malorum est cupiditas becomes "It isn't the money itself that causes the trouble, but rather the use of money as votive ritual and pagan ornament." Wealth...
Johnny Janicek is only one of the many hockey-crazed kids to root on the Crimson. This year, like all years, there has been an enthusiastic kiddie corps in attendance at Bright Center...
...insensitivity does not really involve freedom of speech. It lies with his delivery and approach of the material. As long as he has the right to speak his mind, we have the right to criticize, particularly in racial issues where some ignorance of minority life may be the root of controversy. But if freedom of speech is Thernstrom's defense (letter to the editors, February 10, 1988), that, too, can be questioned...