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...however, they need to learn an entirely new kind of medicine, and become familiar with parasites, pests and pustules the likes of which they have never seen in their few years as doctors. The Jeopardy game is the Lesotho group's creative way of injecting some entertainment into the classic medical school teaching tool - the case study...
...child actors, rappers usually do their best work in the first year or two of their careers. The inevitable decline isn't brought on by bum knees or embarrassing arrests - in rap there's no such thing - but by something far more mundane: words. Jay-Z's aptly titled classic "What More Can I Say" is more than 800 words long, and when it's over you know everything you could possibly need to know about him. (By contrast, James Blunt's pop ballad "You're Beautiful" has less than 200 words, half of which are 'beautiful'.) Now multiply "What...
...That's a 180 from the prevailing notion in classic Hollywood, where optimism was the cardinal belief, at least on-screen. (It was in the front office that the knives came out.) Most movies, whatever their genre, were romances; they aimed for tears and ended with a kiss. But to serious critics then, and to the mass audience now, sentiment is suspect. Feeling is mushy, girly - for fools. To be soft-hearted is to be soft-headed. So critics will see a horror film with extreme violence, or (less frequently) an erotic film with extreme sex, and accept these...
...live forever, might not hook up to this trope, but adults should. They?ve certainly seen it before: Armand trying to breathe life into the dying Marguerite Gautier, or Romeo trying to shake the poison out of Juliet, or Isolde going operatic over Tristan. The Fountain is essentially a classic deathbed scene, at feature length and sustained intensity...
...play, is between two pedagogical methods. Hector is a man who believes simply in learning for learning's sake. At one point he quotes the poet, A.E, Housman thus: "All Human Knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use." In his classes the boys sing classic show tunes, for example, or act out scenes from sentimental films like Now, Voyager or Brief Encounter. French is taught by having some of the lads act out an encounter between a prostitute and her client. And Hector is not above bopping an inattentive or disruptive student with a sheaf...