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Ursula von Rydingsvard carefully outlines a pattern in chalk on a cedar beam before it is violently carved with a circular saw. The serrated blade incises the wood as sawdust flies about her Brooklyn studio...
Upon starting to lecture, every professor at Harvard should have three things at his or her disposal: chalk, a visual projector and 35 inches of lead pipe. All three are tools for teaching a lesson, but I feel the third would make the point most bluntly. And the professor would be required to use it every time a student’s phone goes...
...Faurer's personal archives were messy; we are sure only that the picture was taken sometime between 1949 and 1952.) The nominal subject is a boy turning away from the site of a car accident. At the center of the image is a bit of morbid official graffiti--a chalk outline of the victim's body that is unmistakably phallic, so that love and death are strangely and also childishly intertwined. The boy hugs himself in a gesture that may or may not be dread. His expression is soft and distracted, as though he is thinking over the hard realities...
...like prima donnas, and I think they are the ones with thin skin and fragile egos. Rudenstine deferred a lot to the faculty—that is the way he did stuff. This way isn’t wrong, however. I don’t think we can just chalk this up as a character flaw...
...here brought you here to die,” represent the film’s epitome of chilling dialogue. However, all of that having been said, Mothman is not a completely bad film; it just never really engages the viewer. By the end, audiences will be ready to chalk up many of the film’s occurrences to mere coincidence. This is Mothman’s primary shortcoming—though it tries to raise a lot of questions, in the end I didn’t care what the answers were. What I really wanted to know...