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...traits that make certain characters—like the infamous Cheshire Cat—such distrustful personas are lost in this film. They seem to have toned down their trickery and traded it in for a more helpful, family-friendly approach to Alice’s strife. Wordplay and clever puns are still present, but the ever-cooperative actions of Alice’s companions do not match their tangled, devious verbal logic. The uncertainty surrounding Alice’s environment is thus lost, leading to a more comfortable depiction of her journey...

Author: By Francis E. Cambronero, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Alice in Wonderland | 3/9/2010 | See Source »

...taping of The Colbert Report. The night before, Colbert had basically swallowed then Senate hopeful Harold Ford Jr. whole, like a boa constrictor eating a hamster. Spitzer, who by his own description has "nothing left to lose," was hoping to avoid the same fate by coming up with a clever line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eliot Spitzer's Mission Impossible | 3/4/2010 | See Source »

...Crazies” is an intense, enjoyable, and surprisingly clever vision of a zombie apocalypse in rural America that accomplishes exactly what it sets out to do; raise your blood pressure, clench your teeth, and make you high-five the stranger next to you. Maximizing its low-budget special effects, “The Crazies” successfully remakes the 1973 George A. Romero cult classic of the same name by stringing together a series of frightening and gory situations while simultaneously—and unexpectedly—presenting uncommonly deep themes for the genre...

Author: By David G. Sklar, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Crazies | 3/2/2010 | See Source »

...huge nerd, and I'm proud of it." Too bad this Math Dance isn't a clever drinking game for p-set night...yet. At the time of this posting, it's been viewed almost 70,000 times...

Author: By Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Get to Know Tufts Students via YouTube | 2/28/2010 | See Source »

...thought that was pretty clever, actually. Good works is taking care of the people one loves and people in the periphery of one’s life. Strong drink of course is good wine and good brandy.  Wine would be...a Tuscan wine and brandy would be Hennessy...

Author: By Michelle B. Timmerman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with John Banville | 2/26/2010 | See Source »

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