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DIED. TOVE JANSSON, 86, Finnish artist and author whose hippo-like trolls, the Moomins, delighted postwar readers and whose books were translated into 35 languages; in Helsinki. She got the original idea during the Nazi rise to power; seeing a quote from Immanuel Kant on a wall, she scribbled cant! and drew an ugly troll next to it. She wanted to write fairy tales but felt princesses were inappropriate to such bleak times. The Guardian called her Moomins "among the greatest creations of children's literature...
...appearance of "Traffic," the tangled drug-war mosaic from director Steven Soderburgh (late of "Out of Sight" and "Erin Brockovich"), America has a rare opportunity to observe the way that movie-making ought to be, stripped of the star wattage and special effects, the hackneyed scripts and Left Coast cant. "Traffic" is not the finest movie ever made, admittedly, nor even perhaps the best of the year. But it accomplishes something rare, something that Hollywood finds difficult to manage these days--it tells the truth about a pressing contemporary issue...
...that rigid secularity and cloying, politically correct euphemisms like "holiday season" and "millennial observance" are to be applauded, mind you. Far from it. But even if Harvard were to rid itself of the prejudices of enlightened academia and their attendant cant, it would still be incongruous for our University to make even a half-hearted attempt at celebrating Christmas. The Christmas spirit, to invoke a hackneyed but useful phrase, just doesn't fit in with the spirit of Harvard...
...told the Annenberg worker that neither my internal clock nor my class schedule meshed with the dining service meal hours. I knew I would be hungry later, and I was simply trying to plan ahead. Left without hope for a midnight snack, I chewed on the question, "Why cant a student take food out of the dining hall...
...Paul Taylor's Company B, surpasses both the others in interest, impact and emotion. A tribute to wartime America, Taylor uses memorable songs sung by the Andrews Sisters and ingenious choreography to place the audience in the midst of history and delve into wartime issues. From "I Can Dream, Cant I?" (a song about a woman whose love is overseas) to the "Pennsylvania Polka," Taylor's work explores many of the human faces and emotions of war. Overall, Company B gave a very real, human, touching experience of wartime life...