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...human invention. Without the overemphasized morality of Kearns’s struggle, “Flash of Genius” might have been a trite but heart-warming tale of one man’s success against all odds. However, because of the film’s botched attempt at gravity and intellectual debate, it fails at achieving even that level of mediocrity. —Staff writer Rachel A. Burns can be reached at rburns@fas.harvard.edu...
...band, The Jerk Offs, Norah, feeling lonely, grabs the nearest guy and tells Tris it’s her boyfriend (even though, as we later discover, she already has one). As chance would have it, that guy is Nick, and their relationship springs from there as they attempt to track down the secret show put on that night in New York by Where’s Fluffy. In many ways, this is exactly what we’ve come to expect from Cera. He is his normal self, relying on smiles and awkward movements to convey emotion. People who fell...
...part of an attempt to resolve the decades-old debate on the ideal structure for Cambridge’s middle schools, Cambridge Public Schools Superintendent of Schools Thomas D. Fowler-Finn offered parents the opportunity to communicate their concerns in two public input sessions this week. “This is to put to rest this whole hubbub,” Fowler-Finn told the audience on Wednesday night. The meetings were a result of the district’s Blue Ribbon Commission on Middle School Education, a formalized effort to study and improve the city’s middle...
...contrast to the manufactured feel of “Dancing Choose,” “Love Dog” is an attempt to strip a song down to its bare essentials so that the lyrics can do the bulk of the work. The effect is unsettling, and the feeling must be mutual as Adebimpe croons, “Come lay me low and love me / This lonely little love dog / That no one knows the name of." Here, the pervading image of isolation and anonymity mirrors the underlying angst of a generation struggling to retain its individuality against...
...attempt to address issues that concern us today, the Visiting Faculty Exhibit at the Carpenter Center, on display through October 23, combines digitally altered stills, free-standing sculptures, dark animations, and an interpretation of a 1976 film. It is, in the words of special projects manager Tracy Blanchard, a show that “contemplates the intersections between contemporary art and contemporary technologies to address contemporary concerns...