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Pocahontas, the third and final film screened last weekend, requires a somewhat more complex analysis. The 1996 film is unforgivable in its delusional approach to the historical reality of the Algonquian princess Pocahontas. The cartoon Pocahontas continues Disney’s tradition of the scantily clad female lead, and the film almost explicitly suggests that the clash between Native Americans and English colonists was due merely to cultural misunderstandings. The film ends with the settlers sailing back to England—and away from the conquest and genocide that actually took place...
Last Sunday night, several members of the Harvard Magic Club huddled around a long table in the Kirkland House dining hall. Not a single wand or cone-shaped, rabbit-producing hat was present; the members were clad in jeans and shuffling playing cards. Asked what they had most in common with Harry Potter, darling of the magic world, no one responded except J. Benjamin St. Clair ’04, who muttered, “Hideous birthmarks...
...just as the reader thinks hey, maybe Clinton wasn't so bad after all, Monica raises her beret-clad head. For a moment, Klein indulges Clinton's blame shifting, pointing to the capital's investigatory madness and scandal-mongering press. (As Anonymous, he could empathize.) But quickly he shows that Monica was the vehicle for bringing forth Clinton's pre-existing conditions, his flabby, self-pitying side, the one that thought he deserved to take his pleasure where he could find it and could talk his way out of it if caught...
...campaigned with great success to reduce developing-world debt. Jubilee 2000 was based in Europe, not the U.S., and its foot soldiers were not liberal activists but churchgoers. I remember covering a huge demonstration at the 1999 G-8 summit in Cologne, Germany, that was led not by black-clad anarchists but by nuns singing hymns. Bono's support for the campaign was critical; he gave a patina of glamour to people who would otherwise have been dismissed as nice but deeply unfashionable...
...British accents are so thick, it can be like watching a Ken Loach movie). With dear, lumbering Dad (seemingly boggled by his own wealth); strong-willed wife Sharon (Ozzy's manager); independent-minded daughter Kelly (with dyed-pink hair, like a girl-power answer to Ozzy's black-clad metal-god persona); and chip-off-the-old-block Jack (a likable oddball with a thing for bayonets), the Osbournes are like the Soprano family without the guns. TV thrives on facile distinctions between "functional" and "dysfunctional," but this family is delightfully functional in its own bleeping...