Word: brenner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Leading the charges for the newcomers is transfer student Jill Brenner, who came to Harvard from Florida...
...gaudy, cinematic thriller, is two or three levels better than routine, partly because the author's sentences march well. That never hurts. The setting is a dormant military base in Georgia just after the Gulf War. Officers worried about their careers are trying to look busy. Paul Brenner, a criminal investigator for the Army, is there to sort out the bizarre sex murder of Captain Ann Campbell, daughter of the base's commanding general and, not coincidentally, lover of virtually every man on the general's staff. Brenner, digging out secrets that are brutal, sexist and shabby, carries...
Predictable plot aside, the filming (Tak "You Should be Ashamed" Fujimoto) and editing (David "Albatross" Brenner) provide an educational experience for the filmmaker-to-be. Unexpected zooming and random camera angles reminiscent of home video abound. Let's see how many different shots we can get of two people kissing in a doorway...or is it two different doorways?...or is it in a subway station...
...pilot network in the four houses has metwith mixed success, says Brenner...
...Brenner says that because the network FAS hasinstalled in the houses uses an "ancientprotocol," the system is very slow and itsfeatures are not as comprehensive as many studentswould like. The system is only accessible byMacintosh computers. And FAS charges students a$12 monthly fee to use the network system...