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LD The Bo‘ Battalion Aggielife Page 3 • Monday, March 22, 1999 rf Medicine-ReJ by. Call Holly: lore informatri rhursday - “1 Mens Rugl ice from 7-9a by the polofe ,ove is a many splendored thing lakespeare in Love garners seven iwards including Best Picture at Oscars ^chry parking —its welcome. 1 -ssary. CallL ZDt more infonr; LOS ANGELES (AP) — In a night of sur- rises and upsets, the romantic comedy Mkespeare in Love won seven Academy iwards on Sunday, including best picture. t Rwyneth Paltrow won the best actress Os- runners: uv: ar f or ro j e as 0 5j ect 0 f a y 0U ng Bard’s n <l1 o: ( : flections in Shakespeare in Love. Roberto Be- ^ollie WhiteC* 1 j_ as an it cl ]j an j ew shielding his son from te horrors of the Holocaust in Life is Beauti- il, became the first star of a foreign film to the best actor prize. ■sade forChnst <•{ jon’t f ee i ver y deserving of this in your ■^etmg at 7P : " ®ence,” a sobbing Paltrow said, naming her Zall Kurt at w nominees. Ushakespeare had six Oscars and Saving Bri an Ryan five, while Life Is Beautiful had of Baptist St-jjree After last year’s 11-Oscar blowout by Ti- sweekly wors’ me, the movie crowd seemed to welcome a '' »al i,ire this year. ^0 College Ms | The tragi-comic Life is Beautiful, which Be- 3-3223 fordt jgi j also wrote and directed, won additional tcldemy Awards for foreign film and dramat- « Motorcyc:; score. i oved. Wew “This is a terrible mistake because I used -lax on HanripfeH my English,” he said, as he leapt to the Sweet Huge tate for the second time, lark at 691-kWudi Dench, who played the imperious but aiii-minded Queen Elizabeth 1 in Shakespeare i Love, and James Coburn, the alcoholic, udents Asscbusive father in Affliction, won best sup- - O' can. on ing Oscars. a.in the All paving Private Ryan, Steven Spielberg’s B)dy depiction of World War II combat, won directing Oscar for Spielberg..— his second nonymous: - find also took prizes for cinematography, , from 11:301 diting, sound and sound effects editing, of the Beute ‘‘Am I allowed to say I really wanted this?” >e call LornaU pielberg joked as he accepted the directing or via ends car. ife2.tamu.edij Shakespeare in Love, which led all con- enders with 13 nominations, also picked up Friday ,sc ars for original screenplay, art direction, ostume design and musical or comedy score. foung People Uzabeth won for makeup. Gods and Monsters knonymous); 'on for adapted screenplay. etingatBp.m.'The most controversial moment of the copal Church (Htow came and went quickly, as director Elia i), For more infm 311695-2827. Kazan — reviled by some for naming names during the McCarthy era — stepped out to ac cept a lifetime achievement award. Many mem bers of the audience applauded heartily, some stood, while others, like actors Nick Nolte and Ed Harris, sat silently. Besides Benigni, the only performer in a for eign language film to win an Oscar was Sophia Loren for Tlvo Women in 1961. Fittingly, it was Loren who presented him with his first award of the night. The perpetual ly ebullient Benigni clambered over the backs of seats and hopped onto the stage after Loren openly rooted for her fellow Italian and an nounced his foreign film victory. ‘T want to kiss everybody,” said Benigni, who also was nominated in directing and screenplay categories, while the film was a best picture contender. Another Holocaust film. The Last Days, won the documentary award. Dench, who made an indelible impression despite her brief screen time in the romantic comedy, held up her gold statuette and said with a smile: “1 feel for eight minutes on the screen I should only get a little bit of him.’ It was the first Oscar for the 64-year-old British stage actress, who had been nominated last year for playing a different queen, Victoria, in Mrs. Brown. Coburn, 70, had never been nominated. “I’ve been doing this work for like over half my life, and I finally got one right, I guess,” said the veteran actor, whose dozens of films include Our Man Flint and The Magnificent Seven. “Some of them you do for money, some of them you do for love. This is a love child,” Coburn said. Host Whoopi Goldberg, who changed cos tumes repeatedly to mimic film characters, got the show off to a rousing start when she came out in full regalia as Elizabeth — who figured in two of this year’s contenders — getting a rous ing ovation, then a laugh when she announced with an accent that was more Bette Davis than British, “I am the African Queen.” She joked about being the last master of cer- ROBERT HYNECEK/Thk Battalion emonies of the century and millennium, saying: “I am the last 20th century fox.” And referring to this year’s furor over the spe cial Oscar for Kazan, Goldberg joked; “I thought the blacklist was Hattie McDaniel and me.” The lack of a runaway favorite helped make the 71st Academy Awards among the most an ticipated in recent history. With two well re ceived films as the leaders, the campaign for votes was conducted largely in Hollywood trade paper and newspaper ads. Miramax, which often stages big-money campaigns for its Oscar candidates and suc ceeded two years ago with a best-picture win for The English Patient, laid out millions for Shake speare in Love ads. Vernal equinox marks beginning of spring, signals time of celebration BY BOBBIE EFTEKHAR The Battalion O n Saturday, March 20 at 8:45:52 p.m. EST, spring arrived with the vernal equinox. Sunday, March 21, marked the first full day of spring. Dr. Ronald Schorn, professor of physics, explained what actu ally occurs during the vernal equinox. “The sun passes northward across the celestial equator, which is the circle in the sky halfway between the north and south celestial poles,” he said. The word equinox means equal day and night, but Dr. Schorn says that is not exactly true. “ [The equinox] doesn’t mean there will be equal night and day, because twilight makes the day longer,” he said. Dr. Schorn said the vernal equinox marks the beginning of longer days and warmer weather for the Northern Hemisphere. He said ancient calendars be gan with the vernal equinox sig naling the first day of the year. Dr. D. Bruce Dickson, profes sor of anthropology, said there is evidence that stretches back to the Stone Age that phases of the moon and celestial bodies were recognized. “These sorts of changes are of ten important in agricultural cy cles. Later on it [the importance] became invested in other things,” he said. Although many societies cel ebrate the vernal equinox. Dr. Dickson said they all recognize the event in different ways. “The vernal equinox is some thing interesting tied into some thing important. It enabled [an cient cultures] to calculate time. Human beings find movement in the heavens to be intrinsically in teresting,” he said. One religion that celebrates the vernal equinox is Wicca. Jeff Hamielec, a sophomore genetics major and Co-chair of the Texas A&M Pagan Students Associa tion, said the holiday marks the beginning of spring. “[The equinox] is significant because the old religions revolved around the seasons and go in a pattern of life, death and rebirth,” he said. “This particular holiday signifies rebirth. God is repre sented as a young healthy man.” Another term used for the vernal equinox in Wicca is Os- tara, represented by the color white. At the exact time of the vernal equinox, a ritual is per formed. “During a ritual, a good thing to have is a potted plant to sym bolize that life is able to grow again,” Hamielec said. “General ly you have all your materials, such as candles, set up on an al tar. A circle is cast and a few things are said to honor the holi day. Once finished, the circle is closed down.” One culture that finds signifi cance in the day is that of Iran. The vernal equinox represents the arrival of spring and the New Year. Older family members give brand new, crisp money to the younger family members. Seven items that begin with “s” in the Persian language are placed on a table to celebrate the New Year. There are always sweets and at least one vegetable. Additional items are eggs, candles and a fish. The vernal equinox holds dif ferent meanings in different soci eties, cultures and time periods, and every meaning is important to that society. nee 489461: Ma (Bank of Amerj eak about keel ig developtnef I from 10:20 tc , business cas ire FOR A FULL' [UNITY WHEN GRADU! Station. Out iter is spectac is in these dt[ e • Clerical entory Conttt shifts ation lents and aim 155 lower room) an applicant) DM rttalio RSAT TEXAS A&M 0 ,R0N MEIER Jilir in chief ite Division of StiiW ol Journalism. 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