Word: ducking
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...Duck Season Directed by Fernando Eimbcke Warner Independent Pictures 4 stars If it weren’t for the appearance of an Xbox, porn magazines, and pot brownies, “Duck Season” would look like a filmed Samuel Beckett play. Indeed, in his auspicious feature-length debut, Mexican writer-director Fernardo Eimbcke wraps existential pretensions in the simple staples of adolescent existence, posing many questions along the way: Can videogames settle monetary disputes? Can pornography explain adolescent romance? Can pot brownies reveal the mysteries of growing up? Eimbcke deigns to answer these questions. He is interested...
...absurd objects such as a purse filled with cooked oatmeal. Both directors and actors are to be commended for their ability to walk the fine line between zaniness and implausibility. Particularly arresting were Michael R. Von Korff ’07’s wacky performance as a madcap duck enthusiast in “Duck” and Ellen C. Quigley ’07’s mercurial shifts in emotional expression as the cagey, egotistical Jen in “The Lifeboat is Sinking.” Carolyn A. McCandlish ’07 is also...
...front. "I have them made for me. This one's a bit sporty," she says, "and I'm wearing it over"?she unzips an inch and peers down her front?"a Top Shop T, Seven jeans and heels, of course. When I wear flats, I walk like a duck...
...duck into a room where four men execute pieces in the traditional enamel and kundan technique, in which narrow ribbons of pure gold are wedged around the stone. "The gold is so pure the workers cannot touch it," Kasliwal says. He nods at a packet of uncut rubies. "Burmese, exceptional quality. They already have so much life," he says, valuing them at $1.5 million, and then he takes a call from the royal family of Qatar...
...have on the review. The curricular review is already in its late stages. Two-plus years of careful synthesis of ideas have yielded generally reasonable, if not laudable, proposals. At this point, the project needs debate and voting on ideas, not the formulation of new ones. And a lame-duck dean does not create any impediments to debating the current proposals.Fortunately for the College, awareness of the curricular review is increasing. If last Tuesday’s meeting in Kirkland House is any evidence, students and other members of the College community are giving serious thought to the issues that...