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...vindicated or excused, nor are all its women victimized; thus, the film achieves a more balanced view of the sexes than its textual counterpart. For a film based on such a simple concept—following several relationships with the most clichéd and common problems—“He’s Just Not That Into You” is surprisingly smart, touching, funny, and real. There are moments of genuine laugh-out-loud hilarity, and the film achieves it without resorting to crude jokes about sex or sexism. Even better, it resists the urge...
...lyrics might allow listeners to further appreciate Malajube’s talent, this is certainly not necessary to enjoy the music that the band has crafted. In fact, to non-francophone ears, the French lyrics add a heightened sense of mystery and intrigue to the album. To the common American listener, the focus on the vocals is no longer their meaning, but rather the manner in which they are expressed. Singer Julien Mineau’s vocals range from the drawn out and mysterious chants of “Christobald,” creating a contrast with the up-tempo...
...Tuesday, bracing himself for the class’s unfathomably early first test. “But today...today just feels like the Obama administration,” he continued, as abounding hope and endless possibilities were subsumed by have-to’s and familiar realities.His is a common sentiment, not only at post-shopping period Harvard, but everywhere in the country. With the President staging an aggressive, cross-country political capital spending spree to drum up support for his stimulus package (tentatively titled H.R. God, I Hope This Works) the rapture surrounding his anointment as Savior of America...
...were dyin’/pretend the section is a crashing plane; choose whom you would rescue and explain why, without explaining the scenario/give the signal for Mariachi Veritas to take it away!).But not every section is a match made in heaven. Conflicts between students in section are more common than we would like to admit. When you have selected your section arch-nemesis, proceed to (picture them naked and leave illustrated notes criticizing their physique/learn a mellifluous ocarina dirge to play whenever they speak and then when they finish, exclaim, “As if!”/follow...
...past and the way it returns to us is a recurring theme throughout the book, suturing the stories to one another and focusing the reader’s attention on the characters’ simultaneous divergence and cohesion of experience. All of Smith’s characters share a common search for a sense of identity—a sense which can only be arrived at by a reflection on the past. Smith’s stories of life’s everyday occurrences are at once both introspective and universal. Her characters remain totally ambiguous—they...