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...represents the classic conservative fantasy-the myth of American competence and omnipotence-then Syriana represents the Michael Moore left's myth of American venality and omnipotence, as perpetrated by producer and star George Clooney, who usually knows better. The film aspires to arty complexity, but its purpose is simple-minded in the extreme. The oil companies and their lawyers control everything, including the CIA, which turns out to be an incredibly effective and diabolical agency. In Syriana, not only does the CIA assassinate foreign leaders-which is banned by Executive Order-but impeccably so. The target is, of course...
...CLASSIC BOX SETS...
Love is not something you have to find—usually it happens to you when you least expect it. Of course, the classic Hollywood scenario would involve you dropping your books just as Mr. Right walks by, but in Cambridge, that approach would probably just leave you with soggy notes and a few stares. It is through your classes, extracurriculars, parties, and meals that you’re most likely to find your Prince or Princess Charming...
...QRAC" KERLOCATION: Harvard Dance CenterDATES: Dec. 16-17DIRECTOR: Kate O. Ahlborn ’07 and Ebonie D. Hazle ’06PRODUCER: Alissa C. Clarke ’07Presenting excerpts from the Christmas classic “The Nutcracker,” the Harvard Ballet Company (HBC) gave a mostly pleasing, if occasionally middling, performance in their winter show, “The NutQRACker.” Directors Kate O. Ahlborn ’07 and Ebonie D. Hazle ’06 neatly and rather evenly divided the program into two parts according to styles, although...
...Weather Man He has a funny name (David Spritz) and the studio tried, disastrously, to sell this Nicholas Cage movie as a comedy. It wasn't. It was about a Chicago weather reader dealing with an almost classic midlife crisis-a divorce, a disaffected child, an accomplished, disapproving (and dying) father (Michael Caine) the tempting possibility of taking his act from local to national TV. Steve Conrad's excellent script is directed as a sort of sad frenzy by Gore Verbinski and the result is a very affecting movie, offering a convincing portrait of middle class desperation that ends...