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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Jarmusch begins his film The Limits of Control, the tale of a hitman who doesn't seem to hit, with a quote from the first two lines of Arthur Rimbaud's poem "The Drunken Boat." Some may see this as an alert to pretensions ahead, although my own interpretation was that it serves as a sort of helpful mini-review...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Limits of Control: Hitman of Your Dreams | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

...pacing, The Limits of Control is like an antidote to Internet surfing, and it is easy to fall into its enigmatic rhythms, bobbing along in the shallows like - good heavens, it's all connecting now - a drunken boat or something. In this spirit, the first time the Nude (Paz de la Huerta) hove into sight, nude on the Lone Man's bed, her rump in the air, wearing librarian glasses, she made perfect sense. Every cinematic hitman has a distracting girl stashed somewhere, and the blatant use of her sexuality needs to be parodied. (Her first line is the utterly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Limits of Control: Hitman of Your Dreams | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

...Gaylord Ravenal (Adam Fenton Goddu), a handsome but incurable gambler who joins their troupe after misfortune strikes the company’s two leads. As the showboat continues to travel, Magnolia and Gaylord gain prominence as the two new stars and they eventually wed. After the couple leaves the boat, Gaylord’s gambling addiction thrusts them onto a see-saw of affluence and poverty; in the end, the play follows the twists and turns of their lives, bending like the curves of the river to which they ultimately return. In addition to the show engagement with the universal...

Author: By Lillian Yu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: BCT's 'Showboat' Quite a Show | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

Currier shows them all up, though: THEY'RE ON A BOAT! The mermaid would definitely like to get on this ball...

Author: By Maxwell L. Child and Katherine A. Petti | Title: FlyBy's Guide to the Balls | 4/29/2009 | See Source »

...Charles has been a key resource to Harvard’s outdoors community—hosting boat races including the Head of the Charles Regatta, and the annual Polar Bear Swim, an annual event in which Alaska Klub members jump into the river despite Cambridge’s freezing winter temperatures...

Author: By Spencer H. Hardwick, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Charles River Gets B+ for Water Quality | 4/28/2009 | See Source »

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