Word: artsyness
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Bertolucci chose an odd genre, the European house party, whose best examples are Renoir's The Rules of the Game, set on the eve of World War II, and Bunuel's The Exterminating Angel, which was about a party that, mysteriously, no one could leave. This time there's no...
Oliveira builds on the sexuality, religion and Faustian philosophy of the convent setting and tries to weave a new, intricate twist into the good vs. evil plot. But after 90 minutes of sparse dialogue, sparse interaction and even sparser coherence, "The Convent" ends with an inexplicable supernatural occurence--inexplicable in...
We all know the stereotypes: Adams is home to artsy, alternative types; Mather's for the jocks; Eliot is snobby and Dunster is just plain weird. "No longer!" gloats the administration. In an attempt to fight the polarization that has supposedly taken over the College and thus increase the diversity...
Despite our limited exposure to Yale life, The Game and its surrounding festivities convey striking differences between our two schools. Call it artsy, call it liberal, or call it just plain weird, there is a different air pervading the New Haven grounds than the more conservative, assertive and competitive atmosphere...
ANN BEATTIE'S NEW NOVEL, HER fifth, is enough to make one wince. Another You (Knopf; 323 pages; $24) is set in academia, a trap for many novelists--too many temptations to flaunt the detritus of years of reading, watching and listening to the culture. Beattie, with her penchant for...