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...written dialogue or special lighting and sound. Throw in some low-tech visual effects (superimposing, slow motion, etc.), and the result is a visual spectacle unlike anything in the American film tradition. Rumor has it that Steven Spielberg is planning his own "Dogme" film, and, though doubtlessly it will conform to most of his predictable conventions, it does suggest the potential for a more down-to-earth popular cinema...
...read this one! If so, please continue. Does it seem as if all your fellow aspiring poets and writers are on their way to literary stardom, while you still churn out poetry that belongs in your eighth grade writing workshop class? Or worse yet, your creative genius doesn't conform to what those mainstream people can tolerate. Fear not! Those talented and creative Harvard kids run/start up so many different publications, focusing on anything and everything and whatever might fall in between that you'd have to try really hard to not find the forum you're looking for. While...
...reason the Dirkhising story received so little play is because it offered no lessons. Shepard's murder touches on a host of complex and timely issues: intolerance, society's attitudes toward gays and the pressure to conform, the use of violence as a means of confronting one's demons. Jesse Dirkhising's death gives us nothing except the depravity of two sick men. There is no lesson here, no moral of tolerance, no hope to be gleaned in the punishment of the perpetrators. To be somehow equated with these monsters would be a bitter legacy indeed for Matthew Shepard...
...risk takers ought to be encouraged to switch to less dangerous pursuits unless they are single and have no children, lovers or friends. The often heard statement "It's my life, and I'll do whatever I want with it" simply does not apply to those who do not conform to the above requirements. ALFONSO M. COLLA Rome...
...those that lie ahead. Climate and weather are of particular interest to Nash, who is currently writing a book on those subjects. "Hurricanes," she says, "are one of the great forces of nature. We keep trying to bend them to our will, and we keep trying to make them conform to our own preconceived ideas about how nature should behave. But nature, in my estimation, rules...