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...Having had an interest in designing fashion since childhood, Remele said he feels lucky that he knows at this stage in his life what he wants to do. He admits that it was Whitman who encouraged him to stop talking and start moving...
...wonder. The solar system most of us studied in school was a deceptively simple place. There were the sun, a few asteroids and comets and, as of 1930, when Clyde Tombaugh spotted Pluto on a telescopic photograph, nine planets. Memorizing those nine names has long been a childhood rite of passage, up there with learning to tie your shoes. Yes, Pluto was always an oddball: not only is it tiny (two-thirds the size of our moon), but it has a weird, elongated orbit that is tilted at a sharp angle to the plane the other planets inhabit. Still...
...falls forward, breaking film conventions against showing violence against children on-screen.“Innocent Voices,” Mexico’s official submission for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, is built on the experiences of its co-writer, Oscar Torres, from his childhood during El Salvador’s 1980-1992 civil war. Torres lived through these events, and wrote from the perspective of his 12-year-old self. “The night before we shot [the execution scene], I was doing the shot list in my room,” says director Luis Mandoki...
...ethos. This stands in stark contrast to American action films like “Collateral Damage,” in which the logic of retribution is never called into question, and the act of revenge is celebrated as cathartic and restorative. In New York, Hasan is reunited with his childhood friend Sayeed (Firdous Bamji). Sayeed has found success in America as a physician and enjoys a comfortable middle-class existence. Sayeed and his family put a human face on the American “other” that Hasan has come to terrorize, and the remainder of the film chronicles...
...frustrating that the Saturday morning lineups changed so often I’d have to keep rethinking my schedule. Kate A. Peachway ‘06 I was definitely a big “Ducktales” fan. It took up a large chunk of my childhood. Maybe I’ll watch it later—I might go to Newbury Comics, see if they have it on DVD. “Tailspin” was kind of a downer though, wasn’t as good as “Ducktales...