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...fact, it got so intense that the student writers in the press box used every ounce of their energy to try to retain proper journalistic objectivity, and still failed miserably. Muffled cheers and muttered encouragement directed towards the two teams were commonplace among us sportswriters by the end, and I couldn’t help but yell out in pain and disbelief when McDonald ended my school’s chances at reclaiming its spot at the top of Beantown’s hockey hierarchy...
...didn’t do a very good job off the rush originally—they were getting in the zone a little easily,” Donato said. “We made a couple of adjustments, and we were able to stay out of the box, too.”Despite a high level of intensity by both teams, the Tigers fared better on the scoreboard in the first period.After senior forward Ryan Maki scored his team-leading 11th goal of the season to open the scoring, Princeton equalized just two and a half minutes later. Richter made...
...Heart-Shaped Box is about a very rich and very washed-up rock star named Judas Coyne. At 54 Coyne is jaded and cruel and bored and emotionally shut-down, living in rural splendor in a converted farmhouse with his various disposable goth girlfriends, his recording days long behind him. He likes to collect gruesome artifacts like snuff films. "When Danny Wooten, his personal assistant, told him there was a ghost for sale on the Internet and asked did he want to buy it, Jude didn't even need to think...
...that he has all but abandoned. When confronted with real inhumanity, as opposed to his own affected coldness, Coyne softens unexpectedly, and his emotions wake up. We start to like him and sympathize with him - which makes us all the more vulnerable to the shock treatments of Heart-Shaped Box, since, as Hill observes, "Horror was rooted in sympathy, after all, in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst...
...another key character. It's an appropriate enough theme for Hill, because every artist has to work in the shadow of his or her father-in-art, and symbolically, Oedipally overcome him, and in Hill's case his father-in-art is also his literal, biological father. Heart-Shaped Box isn't about appeasing fathers, and learning to love them, and seeing that they, too, are human beings and not monsters. It's not about that at all. It's about knowing your father, and finding him, and then killing him. That's what the best artists...