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Shay, who moved on from his days at Harvard to become staff psychiatrist in the Department of Veteran Affairs Outpatient Clinic of Boston, has found compelling similarities between ancient epic heroes and modern veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. Shay has worked with the military and promotes reforms dealing with veterans’ psychological health...
...self-trained illustrator who specializes in pen on paper. His notable works include Alien Fighting Dragon as well as the epic Robot Dragon. His work has been displayed throughout eastern Nebraska, most notably, on the refrigerator of Steve Batter, who “normally doesn’t put stuff on the fridge.” Catch his latest masterpieces every Tuesday, right here in The Harvard Crimson...
...legend around the Man With No Name - a publicist's canny invention, since the Eastwood character always had one (Joe, Mongo, Blondie). And it triggered literally hundreds of Westerns from an Italian movie industry that had already shown itself expert at imitating Hollywood and British genres: the Biblical epic turned into the sword-and-sandal muscleman movies, the sex-charged Hammer and Corman-Poe horror films made into even more erotic thrillers. For ordinary moviegoers of the 60s, the phrase "Italian films" did not conjure up Fellini, Antonioni and the glamour of alienation. It meant vigorous ripoffs of English-language...
...westerns that are surfacing now can do so only because some potent actor like Pitt invests his cachet in producing an epic-size movie on an indie-film budget ($30 million or so for Jesse James). Or because two boutique studios chip in for a modern western revenge film, as Paramount Vantage and Miramax did for Joel and Ethan Coen's smart, violent, defiantly quirky No Country for Old Men, coming in November. Or when a director with a hit movie on his rsum charms financiers outside the studio. That's how James Mangold, fresh from Walk the Line...
...farce and a sham"). This combination made him a popular Texas Congressman and Senator, but he also wanted to be President. After a stumbling run as Texas' favorite son in 1956, he realized that his ambitions required him to change his profile on civil rights. The next year, after epic wheeling and dealing as Senate majority leader, he produced the first successful civil rights bill since Reconstruction. It was weak enough to be supported by fellow Southerners, who constituted his political base, yet it offered Northern liberals the prospect of future progress. This balancing...