Word: apartness
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...with Bernardo Bertolucci’s debut, released the year before, “Fists” heralded a new period in Italian cinema. But, “Fists” is also entertaining, even now. Families are often embarrassing and it is fun to watch one be torn apart with skillful gallows humor, rather than the drunken depression of an O’Neil play, the pretention of the Danish film “The Celebration,” or the frustrating bathos of “The Family Stone”-esque American amusements. The movie?...
...Kurds are facing possibly growing problems not just from across its borders. Iraq's Arab majority has long suspected that the Kurds want to break apart their country and take northern Iraq's rich oilfields with them, and that suspicion fueled recent reports that hundreds of Shi'ite Arab militiamen have moved into the northern city of Kirkuk...
...road, I connected a Verizon Wireless BroadbandAccess card to my laptop, and dialed up to the carrier's highspeed mobile network. Connecting to the Internet via cellular modem, I was still able to pull up the cable box in my home, even though we could have been a continent apart. Connecting remotely did cost a lot of bandwidth however: at 300 Kbps, South Park and The Colbert Report were watchable, but game highlights from a Tino Martinez retrospective on the Yankees' YES network were wracked with digital blur...
...mridangam (a double sided South Indian drum) player Shakeel Avadhany (MIT ’09). According to Rudrapatna, Carnatic music is very similar to other music forms, such as Russian classical, in so far as having a 12-note octave. However, what truly sets it apart is the improvisatory nature of the compositions, based on variations in rhythms with an underlying eight beat cycle and a bass scale, called a Raga. Rudrapatna says that there is no rehearsal involved in the performance process. “It’s more like an oral tradition. You go up there, have...
...madman, Deogratias, who imagines himself a dog, the story moves back and forth in time before and after the massacre, revealing the horrifying source of Deogratias' lunacy. Expertly drawn in a clear, European-style that uses thick lines and striking colors, the graphics alone would set the book apart. That it also tells a powerfully humane story set against the madness of hate, racial bigotry and the legacy of colonialism, makes Deogratias a book not to missed...