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...Bride and Prejudice, Gurinder Chadha (Bend It Like Beckham) proves her directorial versatility by offering up a classic tale from Western culture, but tinting it with a distinctly Eastern lens. As the title suggests, the movie is an adaptation of the Jane Austen classic Pride and Prejudice, but instead of taking place in the pastoral setting of 18th century England, the camera takes us through modern-day India, London, Los Angeles, and back again with the fantastical themes of Bollywood following throughout...
...mother eager to marry her and her three sisters off to well-established young bachelors. The storyline should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with Jane Austen, or any standard boy-meets-girl Hollywood romance, really; what makes this film so enjoyable is its marriage of Eastern style and Western content (especially fun to see when the setting moves to Los Angeles) and the way this relationship parallels the one between Lalita and Darcy. ---SNJ?...
...Tigers went on to lose four straight before righting the ship against Columbia last Saturday. Princeton hasn’t ever finished below .500 in Ivy play and hasn’t posted a losing league record since 1953, as a member of the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League...
Concentration: Government/Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations...
Hebah M. Ismail ’06, a Crimson editorial editor, is a Near Eastern languages and civilizations concentrator in Quincy House...