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These beginning scenes displaying the conventions of British society and the conversations between Dench and her upper crust English friends are the movie’s greatest (if only) pleasure; they serve as a self-referential acknowledgement of the Brits’ own absurdity. Though a comedy of British manners is not new ground, it is wonderful to see Dench and her contemporaries do what they do best...

Author: By Margot E. Edelman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Mrs. Henderson Presents | 12/14/2005 | See Source »

...this one: live performance can’t really cathartically take away your pain. But I do feel like the best concerts have been ones in which I’ve witnessed an artist either screaming or whispering his or her way through the Earth’s crust, drilling into the magma that flows in the subconscious. I remember seeing Beck do a solo acoustic show, playing Big Star’s classic “Kanga-Roo,” and his eyes glazed over. He saw all his lovers, past and future. He was exorcising demons. Similarly...

Author: By Henry M. Cowles and Abe J. Riesman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Pistols at Dawn: And Then, Thom Yorke Ate a Live Bat... | 12/1/2005 | See Source »

...more sexual tension that Brangelina, I think we can all handle a few unanswered questions on “Lost.” That said, it would be nice if the writers threw us something. At this point, I’d settle for a tiny crust of a clue. Cut to a shot of the islanders. Sun has lost her wedding ring. She’s in tears, tearing up her garden. She’s certainly lost her Sunny demeanor (har har). Next, we have a flashback of her on a blind date that her mother...

Author: By Jessica C. Coggins, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: TV Watch: Lost | 11/3/2005 | See Source »

WHAT LIES BENEATH The 7.6-magnitude earthquake was triggered by the same forces that created the Himalayas. The Indian plate of the Earth's crust is moving north at around 2 in. (5 cm) per year, driving against the Eurasian plate. Because of those movements, southern Asia is prone to devastating earthquakes. A list of the deadliest over the past decade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nightmare in the Mountains | 10/16/2005 | See Source »

...times, it seems as if people do as much as they can to ensure this remains a community defined by the standards of its upper crust, which always hover just below the surface, hiding behind the popped pink collar and the aristocratic lockjaw...

Author: By Michael Gould-wartofsky, LEFT UNSAID | Title: The Hardest Class at Harvard | 10/5/2005 | See Source »

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