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...better way to take in these breathtaking sights and absorb the rich culture is to stretch your visit to this aerie in the Peruvian Andes. Cuzco is worth a few nights' stay. A good choice there is the Hotel Monasterio, a newly converted Franciscan monastery. Chants echo through the interior courtyards at breakfast, and guests can stroll through the archways and choose between a monkish cell or plusher accommodations...
...style makes this movie feel slightly sitcom-ish. The scenes don't particularly flow well (some parts scream for commercial breaks), and it jumps from melodrama to obvious comic relief without much attempt at subtlety. Hytner seems lost as to what genre the movie actually belongs in. Rare scenes echo with the light, schmaltzy appeal of a romantic comedy, some seem amateurish (reminiscent of high school plays), and others are bogged down in unnecessarily messy melodrama. The movie reeks of heavy editing; any momentum built in a scene is promptly lost in the next...
This multi-tiered conception of TBTN manifests itself in programs that focus on women in the work force and tenuring practices at Harvard, in programs focused on violence to the self, particularly an eat-in sponsored by ECHO about women and body image, and in women's empowerment, most literally dealt with through a self-defense workshop for women...
...also makes a more convincing argument, although one that it is considerably harder to accept--at least for the young, inexperienced and idealistic--and one that she therefore spends less time developing. The real crux of Steinem's argument and the only persuasive aspect of it is simply an echo of the message of Jack Stanton: you've got to be a whore in order to change the world...
Judy Batalion '00 is a history and science concentrator in Adams House and Melissa L. Gibson '99 is a women's studies concentrator in Winthrop House. They are co-directors of ECHO...