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...With a simple counterpoint you can introduce at least the idea that things aren’t exactly according to the numbers,” Beren says. “I think Ec 10 does...

Author: By Anton S. Troianovski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: As Feldstein Leaves, Changes Afoot for Ec 10 | 6/9/2005 | See Source »

...With a simple counterpoint you can introduce at least the idea that things aren’t exactly according to the numbers,” Beren says. “I think Ec 10 does...

Author: By Anton S. Troianovski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: As Feldstein Leaves, Changes Afoot for Ec 10 | 6/8/2005 | See Source »

...namely the Cellar and the Fogg Museum, where most of the story’s main characters work—are strikingly and realistically represented in Stevens’ pen-and-ink crosshatchings. And the characters who pass through these places do behave dumbly, providing a stark narrative counterpoint to the dramatic black and white imagery...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ‘Guilty’ Pleasures From Fogg to Cellar | 5/5/2005 | See Source »

Berger proves the consummate ingénue in her role as Miriam. She appears perfectly guileless and radiates compassion with each luminescent smile. Her naïveté offers stark counterpoint to Turner’s world-weariness. After she and Turner are discovered she remarks absently, “nothing is likely to come of it.” Turner feebly assents, but hangs his head in defeat...

Author: By Bernard L. Parham, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The ‘Story’ of Van Peebles | 5/5/2005 | See Source »

...suburban Kansas City, Mo., that summer of Star Wars. I was an incipiently tortured child who had crushes on most of the boys in the neighborhood. That was confusing--to me as well as most of the boys in the neighborhood--but my mounting uncertainty found a clarifying counterpoint in Han Solo. When I was playing with the neighbor kids, I would adopt a sarcastic, daring Solo persona. I didn't quite get Lucas' hieratic Jedi myths or his nearly liturgical lightsaber duels. But Solo's weapons--his blaster and his mouth--those I got. I would charge through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Star Wars Saved My Life | 5/1/2005 | See Source »

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