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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...shots cut between large groups of tribe members—with face paint, wooden weapons, and instruments—and Kanye, looking miserable in his white apartment. From there, it goes just about nowhere. The number of painted primitive dancers and drummers seems to increase tenfold. Two glowing alien women appear toward the end and begin to gyrate against each other. The final shot shows Kanye attempting to sleep on that white couch, and the elapsed four minutes feel like 30. So what’s the hidden message here? Is Ye planning his own misogynistic murder spree? Maybe making...

Author: By Samantha C. Cohen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: POPSCREEN: Kanye West | 10/17/2008 | See Source »

Show me a human fear, and i'll show you a monster. Our ancestors populated dark forests with dragons and uncharted seas with krakens. Sci-fi transmuted commies and nukes into body snatchers and Godzilla. In the 1990s, The X-Files turned post-Vietnam paranoia into an elaborate government-alien conspiracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bodies of Evidence | 10/16/2008 | See Source »

...Sometimes in these meetings I’m feeling like we’re away from reality,” said task force member Bruce Houghton. “This is the hope and dream you’re presenting, but the reality of what is proposed is...alien to everything you have suggested tonight. It is not green, and it is not compatible with open space,” he said...

Author: By Nan Ni and Vidya B. Viswanathan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: City to Revamp Barry's Corner | 10/8/2008 | See Source »

...theory, Fireproof is as alien to me as Religulous is familiar. At more than two hours, the film will make those viewers restless who aren't utterly resistant. But there's something affecting about its artless earnestness, its aim to dramatize large portions of ordinary lives that most movies ignore. I wasn't converted, but I was charmed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Would Jesus See: Fireproof or Religulous? | 10/6/2008 | See Source »

...veneer. People are calling for these men’s heads, and the bucks certainly haven’t made it any easier on themselves: their insouciance, their apparent lack of contrition and the nonchalance with which they roll the dice with the lives and means of innocent people, alien to them...

Author: By James M. Larkin | Title: On Swashbuckling | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

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