Word: cravenness
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...Craven has confirmed as much, citing his obsession with rites of passage, with horror movies depicting what happens when authority figures disappear and we must face the "unpleasant truth...
...lying to himself: that is delusion. A nation lying to itself: that is policy. Thus the death of half a million American Indians is euphemized as manifest destiny. The French, after their craven accommodation to the occupying Nazis, had their own little lie. Collaborators? Mais non--we were all in the Resistance...
...Titanic, it turns out, is no disaster, just an uninspired shipboard melodrama with watery songs, predictable musings about the hubris of the enterprise, and a surfeit of cliched characters. They include the ship's craven owner, who keeps urging the captain to increase the speed; aristocrats like the John Jacob Astors and the Isidor Strauses, who drown with dignity; and some tiresomely idealistic Irish immigrants in steerage. What director Richard Jones and scenic designer Stewart Laing have accomplished, however, is an imaginative, even haunting, stage rendering of the sinking: the stage tilts ominously; faces of the doomed passengers appear...
Levitin is right about one thing. The Oslo accords must be renounced. Not because, as he suggests, they are damaging Israel. But because under the craven capitulation of Arafat they give up all Palestinian rights to control over water, to an independent economy, to sovereignty over large swathes of the West Bank and the Gaza strip, to self-determination in any meaningful sense. Because the Oslo Accords represent, in short, the historic defeat of the Palestinian people. Tanya Geha '00 Jonathon Conant G1 Aykan Erdemir G1 Asli Niyazioglu G1 Demetri Kastritsis G1 Khaled Said G1 China Mieville, Special Student Charles...
...Craven began his career by imitating better directors (Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring was the source for his 1972 debut, Last House on the Left) and kept at it until he was mature enough to imitate himself. Scream, which has won some unaccountably indulgent reviews, is like his self-reverential Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994): an idiot-savant movie, knowing but not smart. For viewers who are not scholars of the slasher genre, the latest Craven will seem one more exercise in voyeuristic sadism, an excuse for the torturing of teens in tight sweaters. And that's exactly...