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Certainly, one need not engage Starship Troopers in an ideological discourse to have a damn good time watching it. Nor, however, does The Wings of the Dove lack some solid, unintellectualized, "pure" entertainment value. The point is that most films offer something for the mind and for the adrenals, and they deserve to be seen by a wider audience than niche-marketing allows. Film has prodigious potential as a unifying medium, and as a mouthpiece to circulate all sorts of ideas across broad swaths of the public. That potential is undermined, and our intellectual and social development stunted...

Author: By Nicholas K. Davis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Reconciling Highbrow, Big-Budget Films | 12/12/1997 | See Source »

...glassy, modern set, and seemed surprised by the English-language production. It's usually a bad idea to translate German libretti. It's also risky to tamper with the original setting of a staged work of art. Why, then, did this "Fledermaus" come off so well? Because it was damn funny...

Author: By Matthew A. Carter, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ringing in the New Year With Booze, Babes and Bats | 12/12/1997 | See Source »

...have a pretty damn squeaky clean room. Well, they might find the fridge, but we're going to put a drape over it," he said...

Author: By Rosalind S. Helderman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Inspection Of Rooms Is Planned For Break | 12/11/1997 | See Source »

...life and neglectful of Burmese students and strawberry pickers. Our question for the staff: "If these simple student-oriented issues are so self-evident, how is it that the council has made so little progress?" Perhaps it is time for Harvard to have a council President who gives a damn about these "bread-and-butter" issues...

Author: By Dan S. Aibel, Tom Cotton, Dov J. Glickman, Jamie L. Jones, Melissa ROSE Langsam, Paul R. Mrockowski, Eric M. Nelson, Noah Oppenheim, and Joshua H. Simon, S | Title: Beth Stewart Better Choice | 12/8/1997 | See Source »

Most of these allegations have already been published; she has denied them all. She lost her cool once last week, outside the hall when she was asked about the possibility of facing private prosecutions for the death of Seipei and another Soweto activist. "I don't give a damn!" was her shouted reply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: MUGGER OF THE NATION? | 12/8/1997 | See Source »

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