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Another prize winner, Cliff W. Chiang '96, took advantage of his joint concentration in English and Visual and Environmental Studies to illustrate Milton's Paradise Lost...
...Dead Man" is mesmerizing. Under Jarmusch's direction, the western wilderness plays itself out in gray forms emerging from a bleached-out screen or disappearing into a white mist. Through such a lens, a mountain is as immaterial as a stick of kindling, a laketop as impenetrable as a cliff's face. The film is handled episodically, with a full fade to black between scenes. These pauses in the narrative slow the film down and thwart the efforts of audience members to gauge the pace or predict the plot. The moments of blankness, which Jarmusch describes as "respiration," also serve...
...went off the cliff and pinwheeled onto the rocks below, a world economic crash that seemed a retribution for too much heedlessness and gin. By the time the '30s, W.H. Auden's "low, dishonest decade," gave out, the Nazis were spreading out all over Western civilization. And so on. The '40s--the first half of them given over to world war, the second half hardening into cold war and nuclear anxiety--did not make anyone want to linger...
Impersonators of Pee Wee Herman, Cliff Claven, Joe Pesci and Frank Sinatra--who sang the 1950s classic "You've Got Me Under My Skin"--also took part in the 40-minute ceremony...
...score indicates, both sets were extremely close. In the second game, the Big Green held a 14-10 lead, but the Crimson held on to the cliff's edge as the two teams traded sideouts for about 20 minutes...