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...meets smart, funny co-worker Em Lewin (Kristen Stewart, “Twilight”). The film tries to tackle more adult themes, such as true love and marital fidelity, but it retains a high school level of maturity in which boner jokes and punches in the nuts abound. Although the characters are allegedly four years older than the high schoolers of “Superbad,” they still binge drink until they puke, and there is little to distinguish Eisenberg’s awkward and soft-spoken virgin from that of Michael Cera (other than the fact...

Author: By William P. Hennrikus, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Adventureland | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

...when they interact with their environment can his art come to completion. “The space becomes charged by the exchange between viewer and object,” Biggers says. References to “power objects”—objects enlivened with energy—abound in his work.In his installation, “Mandala of the Bodhisattva II,” Biggers fashioned a floor after a Buddhist mandala, a spiritual emblem, and then asked break dancers to perform on it. In “Hip Hop Ni Sasagu (In Fond Memory...

Author: By Madeleine M. Schwartz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Multifaceted Artist Biggers Dodges Simple Interpretations | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

GHOSTBUSTERS 3: Judd Apatow rumors abound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop Chart | 4/7/2009 | See Source »

...originally conceived, this device is supposed to amplify an effect by presenting it in an unusual or grotesque way. The offhand presentation of violence and brutality certainly constitutes a form of defamiliarization, but the effect, conversely, is to sap the book of any real emotional power. Such descriptions abound in the novel in a flat, monotonous way, and the purely grotesque, after intense repetition, has neither comic nor dramatic value. Thus even those scenes which ought to be most powerful have little impact, as with the death of Senyor, a character of focus for some odd pages...

Author: By Keshava D. Guha, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Death Springs Eternal, But Not Much Else | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...Such grim financial projections abound at Harvard Medical School and its affiliated hospitals where much of its faculty work. Mass. General, Dana-Farber, and Beth Israel Deaconess have all announced plans for layoffs. And the Medical School recently said it would cut its budget by 10 percent for the next fiscal year due to a projected 30 percent decline in Harvard’s endowment for the year ending this June...

Author: By Laura G. Mirviss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Science Funds Uncertain | 3/20/2009 | See Source »

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