Word: doored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...receive the paper. Kim says the Quad represents a particular challenge for distribution. "The way the streets of Cambridge run, the logical distribution route gets to the Quad last. There is no anti-Quad bias, but if the paper is late getting out, it might not get dropped door-to-door" in the Quad Houses...
Other executives seem to believe that distribution problems, in the Quad and throughout campus, are rare occurrences. Crimson President Joshua H. Simon '00 believes that "there are anomalous situations where a whole House does not get the paper door-dropped." Further, despite the fact that Quad distribution has been particularly bad this year, Simon is unaware "if [circulation problems] affect certain areas more than others...
...business department is aware of the problem and that "there are people working on circulation every day." Those in charge of circulation seem particularly sensitive to the fact that their colleagues work so hard to get the paper out. Says Kim, "I want to see The Crimson going door-to-door, not just dropped off in the dining halls. I have lots of friends who work for The Crimson, and it really is the voice of the undergraduate community...
...film's intention for using a child's perspective manifests itself most clearly when Lenny innocently asks the "Ice Candy Man" if he saw his two sisters, who were on the train, in one of the sacks. In another scene, Lenny sees the Muslim refugees camped next door and asks her cousin who they are. Irritated that her cousin will not explain what he means by "fallen women" and "rape," she questions a young boy. The boy describes how he hid under dead bodies until the massacre of his village was complete and then went to search for his mother...
...greatest toy the movie has to play with is the participation of real-life actor John Malkovich, playing himself with perversity and panache. The film brings him into the plot with characteristic audacity; Cusack discovers a secret door at work that leads directly into the inside of Malkovich's brain. He becomes famous Malkovich for fifteen minutes (get it?), and is then spit out onto the side of the New Jersey Turnpike. It is to the film's credit that this bizarre, supernatural turn of events doesn't jar the logical tone of the movie at all. Getting inside Malkovich...