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...manages this with the rape scene; ?Dr. Lamb? does it with Simon Yam?s obsessive sexual defiling of his latest corpse.) And the Cat III director?s game was to out-gross the competition, leaving the audience and his colleagues slack-jawed in flummoxed awe. That?s the only apt response to ?Red to Kill,? the masterpiece in the ITMFG collection - the killer vase among these grisly movie antiques. (The film is available in the U.S. on video...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Hong Kong Horrors! | 11/13/2002 | See Source »

...title of the album is apt, as CKY has made no secret of its disdain for the trendy pop confections on the airwaves. Yet they seem intent on affecting their revolution from within the system. Their videos have played on TRL, and much of their fame has come by way of association with the MTV show “Jackass.” The music on Infiltrate is far more radio-friendly than previous albums, which included lyrics like “I caught my daughter giving head to my brother.” The emotions are more coded...

Author: By Andrew R. Illif and Marcus L. Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: New Music | 10/17/2002 | See Source »

...means, that the issue of legacy advantage is a simple or black-and-white one. Whether or not it is “fair” or “right,” Harvard does have an important financial stake in admitting legacy students; alumni are more apt to give money when they think that their children have a bit of an edge in the admissions game, and it is this very money that, to take one example, enables the college to have a need-blind financial aid system...

Author: By Zachary S. Podolsky, | Title: Veritas Has No 'Z' | 10/17/2002 | See Source »

...magisterial figures like the late Pier Paolo Pasolini, a political thinker, novelist and film director. Another inspiration: Jean-François Revel, whose bestselling book, The Anti-American Obsession, is only the latest reflection of the author's catholic interests from Proust to political philosophy. "Here there is more apt to be infiltration from one form to another," Malkovich says. The theme of crossover - between theater and film, directing and acting, France and the U. S. - is central to Malkovich's life. Early next year he'll release The Dancer Upstairs, the first film he has directed. Based...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crossover Artist | 10/13/2002 | See Source »

...recent Saturday, Teddy took the opportunity to explain, or rather to show me—a person more apt to wear two pairs of shoes while walking outdoors than to wear none at all—the joys of a life unburdened by footwear. By taking a walk in the shoes of a man who does not wear shoes, I was treated to a first-hand explication of the practical and philosophical underpinnings of the barefooted lifestyle: Wright’s Theory of Feet, if you will. The destination of our trek would be no less than what Teddy calls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Free Your Mind, Free Your Feet | 9/26/2002 | See Source »

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