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...memorize sound-bytes from the evening news and feel like political sophisticates. Sen. Tom Daschle (D-SD) and his pals know this trick well. No sooner did President George W. Bush conclude his fine speech last Tuesday than the Democrats tossed us a meaty slogan from their political banquet: The Bush tax-cut plan is unfairly biased towards the wealthy. Sound familiar? It should; we have been sucking the marrow out of it for nearly a week...
...Chinese New Year Banquet in Leverett Dining Hall on Friday night was not a place for the fainthearted. Chioma Duru '04 was one of many attendees who was hit by flying lettuce...
...banquet drew a diverse array of students, many of whom were not Asian. Duru, who is African-American, had never been to a Chinese New Year celebration before. "It was definitely interesting," she said. "I really liked the lions." Jessica Son '04, who is of Korean descent, did not know much about Chinese culture before attending the banquet. "It was very enlightening and fun," she remarked...
...banquet of creepy, gory or grotesque incidents is on display in Hannibal, the corrosive and haunting film version of Thomas Harris' sequel to The Silence of the Lambs. One man is disemboweled and hanged in public, his entrails dangling like a watch fob. Another is thrown to ravenous wild boars as a Lucullan snack. A third malefactor is condemned to dine on a little brain food (his own); it's Lecter's idea of just desserts. But none of these atrocities is more disquieting than that moment at the carousel--the first-ever physical contact between a cannibal of genius...
...film director is the ultimate father figure, doling out responsibility, praise and censure. On Crouching Tiger, Lee, who secured his early fame with the so-called Father Knows Best trilogy (Pushing Hands, The Wedding Banquet, Eat Drink Man Woman), was a father-teacher to Zhang the budding actress, to Yeoh the tentative Mandarin student, to Chow the man on the flying bamboo. And behind Lee was another family figure--the young Ang, mesmerized by tales of great fighters and images of impossible physical grace...