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FrightFest, Aug. 21-25 Horror is the runt of the cinematic litter, always left out of mainstream festivals and often ignored come awards season. But legions of fans roam the earth in search of a good scare, and every year hordes of them descend on London's FrightFest. Gore lovers come for the blood and guts, but there's always a healthy sprinkling of parody and psychological thriller - films you won't have to watch through your fingers...
...Food: Chinese food for everyone! DESSERT Women, Gender, and Sexuality Ice Cream: Our ice cream brings all the boys to the Yard / and they’re like / it’s more politically correct than yours. “Too Hot Not to Handle” Desserts with Earth and Planetary Sciences: Global warming may destroy our planet, but grab some of our cheesecake! Cookies, Milk and Music: And a bedtime story, if you’re good...
...support to India, has led many in the West see this country as a nation of 1.2 billion software engineers. The Indian Institute of Technology brand owes much to Asok, the super-geek of the popular comic strip Dilbert, who claims to be "mentally superior to most people on earth," is trained to sleep only on national holidays, and can reincarnate from his own DNA. But studies point out that while India's pool of 14 million university graduates grows by a further 2.5 million every year, only one in four engineering graduates - and one in 10 graduates of other...
...select few who were resourceful enough to construct Deloreans while their peers were only buying airline tickets, Fire & Ice offers a remarkable replication of the pre-historic world they likely visited. Here, food only exists in chaotic piles of raw meat and vegetables freshly torn from the Earth; ordinarily civilized students morph into Cro Magnons with no opportunity for rest amidst the continual need to hunt and gather their own meals. It goes without saying that the do-it-yourself ethos of Fire & Ice precludes exposure to new cuisine or involved conversation among dining groups, making primitive grunts the optimal...
...American family of the 1970s as the product of India and America. These earlier works portrayed intergenerational conflict between Americanized children and their first generation parents, who, while desirous of the educational opportunities life in America afforded, tended to cling to traditional values. But in “Unaccustomed Earth,” Lahiri complicates these relationships. Using a more expansive format for the eight new stories that comprise the collection, she turns her anthropological eye on our own era of increased complexity and globalization, and suggests that the double consciousness she identified in her earlier works might actually...