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...truly appreciate the beauty of Julien’s film while standing in the Carpenter Center: the lighting is not ideal, the screen is tiny and embedded in an enormous white wall, and the ambient noise and perpetual echoes in the gallery force the hapless viewer to glue his ear to the screen just to hear the actors’ voices. “Looking for Langston” is a poetic, haunting documentary, filmed in black and white, that examines the life of Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes from a racial, political and sexual point of view. Julien...
While the neighborhood group has no official authority, it has the ear of the city officials who stand between Harvard and its tunnel. Three city councillors came to watch the January proceedings, which MCNA widely avertised as one that would deliver a verdict on the tunnel...
...despite his pugilistic power insists on doing battle with his teeth, reportedly bit Lewis on the leg. Chances are the incident will not go over well with the Nevada State Athletic Commission, which suspended Tyson's license in 1997 after he bit off a piece of Evander Holyfield's ear. The commission is still considering whether or not to reinstate Tyson's license for the Lewis fight, scheduled to take place April 6 in Las Vegas. At stake: $17.5 million per boxer and the heavyweight title. Judges have not decided who won the press conference...
...fends them off, Eastman engineers a campaign of phony Internet postings, staged videos and even a U.S. Senate appearance. This is author Eric Dezenhall's debut novel, and the former Reagan White House staffer and co-founder of a crisis-management firm knows his stuff. His superb eye and ear at times call to mind such masters of the journalistic novel as Tom Wolfe. This is one for the carry-on bag. --By Andrea Sachs...
...outfit: a traditional wife-beater and stripped oxford (open, of course—wouldn’t want Dusty to overheat in the prairie sun), macho-man Texas-sized belt buckle and jeans. His seemingly unwashed, stringy, chin-length, dirty brown hair is either tucked innocently behind one ear or wisping across his rugged, bearded chin. Dusty is sensitive. He probably plays the banjo and knows how to speak Cherokee. He’s the kind of wilderness man who will throw an old quilt his grandmother stuffed with genuine animal hair in the back of his vintage Ford pick...