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...Drooker's work have always been the individual vs. the state and nature vs. technology. (He even overlays animals on the UPC code of his books.) In "Blood Song," often these themes will overlap as when the young woman flees the police. The chase transforms into an ecstatic dance amid traffic lights, parking meters and pedestrians. Her skeleton becomes visible through her skin, juxtaposing her corporeal self against the unnatural trapping of a metropolis...
Police and others note that she never panhandles, instead keeping her own quiet routine amid the hustle and bustle near the MBTA bus stop...
...Hong Kong film form, already pretty robust and raunchy, went heedlessly, fearlessly nuts. Soon Cat III was not just a rating but a two-headed genre - and not just a genre but a style - that a many directors executed with cunning and brio. Sure there was junk, but amid the turgid, demeaning stuff were films that provoked astonishment and exultation. ?They can do this!?? gave way to ?They do it so well...
...married with a child, he's a single photographer. But their overnight bus journey through the hills of West Bengal draws them together. As violence erupts, a curfew is declared and they take shelter together-along with Iyer's son-in an abandoned bungalow in the forest. Amid this mayhem, they fall in love...
...writing to commend economics Lecturer Robert H. Neugeboren ’83 for his humility (News, “Econ. Lecturer Removed Amid Complaints,” Oct. 30). Regardless of his teaching abilities, Neugeboren is an example to every student and every professor because of his difficult recognition that “many of the criticisms [of the students]...were valid.” I am sure I am not the only one who has had a professor or a teaching fellow who brazenly stated at the beginning of the term that he or she knows what...