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Though Frailty is Paxton’s debut, he has experienced vicarious tutelage under the likes of director James Cameron and ventures on a polar opposite from his frequent employers. Where Cameron frequently descends into overblown melodrama and explicit sentimentality, Paxton exhibits an oddly compelling restraint. He pulls fewer emotional punches than might be expected in this, a tale of questionable morality, and leaves almost all the gore offscreen. Using sounds suggestive of the violence that the father inflicts on his demons, the camera pans to the reaction shots of his children, and in those moments, the images truly chill...
...response came only two days later, after the former managing editor of The Crimson, Parker R. Conrad ’02-’03, e-mailed Shelley from Arkansas with the clearly drunken revelation that I look just like Cameron from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Shelley cc’d me with her reply...
Newcomer Megan Cameron ’05 also values dancing regularly as “a way to relieve stress” and to structure time...
Combined with performances every Friday and Saturday night during the basketball season, the wear and tear on the dancers can be quite severe. Cameron jokes that she and fellow freshmen Thea Daniels and Kim Gould spend most of their time talking about how sore they are after practice...
...Daniels and Gould aren’t the only new members who have made an immediate impact. Cameron, who like Gould is from California and like Daniels was once an All-American cheerleader, rounds out arguably the strongest freshman class in the history of the team...