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...Paul G. Dexter ’04 is a linguistics concentrator in Dudley House. He is writing on behalf of the Harvard Initiative for Peace and Justice...
...White, for example, creates a penny-dreadful-style comic of text and illustration that spins an absurd story combining Christian mythology, spiritualism, and Jane Eyre-style melodramatics. "That night, after drinking a special tea laced with laudanum and other substances, Paulina lay down to await the Archangel Michael. ... Soon, Dexter appeared in a hooded robe." Many of the artists see no reason use verisimilitude or even be particularly sexy. Ben Catmull's "Howard," shows a chubby guy who gets embarrassed that his bathtub fantasies keep devolving into strange penile animals. "Splish Splosh" are the only sounds in the cutely-drawn...
...Kenobi) meets a naughty one (Count Dooku, incarnated by Christopher Lee). Joseph Campbell might have got a kick out of the mythic reverberations, but for the rest of us the story is a thin clothesline on which to hang some terrific computerized beasties (the iguana hashslinger Dexter Jettster, the tall, graceful llama-lamas of planet Kamino) and fab set pieces (a treadmill struggle in the clone factory). Lucas guides these scenes with ingenious care. As for the actors, they're on their own, and it shows...
Clones is populated with hundreds of computer-generated creatures, from new digital stars like the four-armed diner chef Dexter Jettster to familiars like Yoda, Watto the Junkman--and that vexing critter Jar Jar Binks, around whom the disappointment in Phantom Menace crystallized. Lucas blames the anti-Jar Jar sentiment on "37-year-old guys who spend all their time on the Internet. But you have to remember that when we did The Empire Strikes Back, some people hated C-3PO. When we did Jedi, they just loathed the Ewoks. There was no Internet to jazz it up, but there...
...action when action is needed—and action is always needed. In short, I consider it Summers’ duty as president to challenge undergraduates and the rest of the University to use the many opportunities available here to heed, in their own fashion, the words inscribed on Dexter Gate: “Go forth to serve thy country and thy kind...