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...another flick about an American ballerina who goes to an international dancing school only to discover it is a witches coven! But turn those frowns upside down boys and girls, because this is a slasher flick from none other than Dario Argento, a.k.a. The Man who Gives Wes Craven and John Carpenter nightmares. The defining element of Argento’s films is a crazily inventive visual palette. The colors are so beautiful that the grizzly dismemberment attains a certain gloriousness. After seeing a movie like this, run-of-the mill horror seems far too crude...

Author: By Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cult Love | 10/30/2003 | See Source »

...pool of Democrats who would rather root against Yankee Republicans than extol their own virtues. It’s early in the campaign, yes, too early to expect Democratic hopefuls to put forward clear platforms. But it’s not too early to lambaste them for their craven concessions to political expediency...

Author: By Blake Jennelle, | Title: A Party for Those Damned Red Sox | 10/6/2003 | See Source »

Esquire called the book by the former George Magazine executive editor “unreflective, pompous, craven, exploitative, hanger-on-ish, and just horrendously written...

Author: By Elisabeth S. Theodore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Profile And Planned Biography Place Summers In The Spotlight | 9/18/2003 | See Source »

...think the budget is a sick and craven attempt to balance the tax cuts for the rich and the declining profits of companies on the backs of the poor and the working class,” he said. “I wanted to vent my rage and let them know that there is a solution...

Author: By Simon W. Vozick-levinson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Undergrad Arrested After Sit-in | 7/3/2003 | See Source »

...gallows humor makes Pupendo hilarious at times. In one scene, Mára's wife, who makes ceramic piggy banks for a living, switches from pig shapes to human butts with ears, suddenly a hot commodity. Many of Hrebejk's characters are ambivalent - capable of great heroism and craven cowardice, all while displaying an uncanny knack for survival. In Divided We Fall, which Hrebejk considers his best film, the main character has second thoughts about hiding his Jewish friend and eventually - without turning him over - joins the Nazis to protect his family. "Some consider this excessive relativizing," Hrebejk says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Staring Into the Past | 5/18/2003 | See Source »

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