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...fable, a parable, a chivalric test of manhood. Whatever its historic validity, the notion of the big shootout kept Westerns going strong for the first 70 years of Hollywood cinema. It began with the first smash hit at the nickelodeons, The Great Train Robbery, and continued with Cecil B. De Mille's The Squaw Man and John Ford's The Iron Horse in the silent era. Cimarron, a generational tale from Edna Ferber, was declared Best Picture at the fourth Academy Awards convocation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Wild West's Long and Winding Road | 9/21/2007 | See Source »

...unfashionable aspects of the genre that attract directors to it. "There's something wonderfully analog about the western," says Mangold. "What's happening onscreen is happening. It's not a guy hanging in front of a green screen." Dede Gardner, who produced Jesse James through Pitt's company, Plan B, sees the western as therapeutically anachronistic and human-friendly: "We're besieged by technology, iPhone this and robot that. We're figuring out how to exist without even talking to one another. Well, you can't do that in [westerns]. It's all about person-to-person confrontation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Too Tough to Die | 9/20/2007 | See Source »

...stacks go and how late is the library open?” 5. FM: Oh. Oh my. You’re not suggesting what I think you’re suggesting, are you? 2011: “i HAVE thought about sex in the stacks..it CAN b pulled off, u just have to b smart nd kno wat level to do it on ;) There r sensors that cause the lights to turn on automatically, but there r an equal number of shady corners 4 all types of activities ya digg??” 6. FM: I think...

Author: By Jessica L. Fleischer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with the Class of 2011 | 9/20/2007 | See Source »

...Karin B. Michels, an associate professor at the School of Public Health and the Medical School who teaches Freshman Seminar 25k, “You Are What You Eat,” praised b.good’s decision to post the new calorie counts, even if the previous measurements had proved erroneous...

Author: By Margot E. Edelman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Do You Want Calories With That? | 9/20/2007 | See Source »

...course ratings for some of Harvard’s most popular classes. Compiled with a highly complicated and effective methodology, designed to assess the things that actually matter to the average Harvard student, we present the things the CUE Guide doesn’t want you to know: SCIENCE B-57: DINOSAURS AND THEIR RELATIVES Course Description: Science B-57 is a comprehensive exploration (aka memorization) of the most obscure bones of extinct lizards. While it’s billed as an easy way to cop out of the science core, in reality the only thing that?...

Author: By Gracye Y. Cheng and Nicola C. Perlman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: The Cutest of the CUE | 9/20/2007 | See Source »

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