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...many students are crying foul at this announcement as a missed opportunity for further College-directed programming opportunities. A stress-free break—what seemed for me to be the crown jewel of calendar reform—has irrationally become, in the eyes of my peers, yet another epic administrative blunder...
...impressiveness of the car-nage epic's take also surprised the industry analysts who had predicted a weekend figure in the $40 millions; some had thought F&F might finish second to last week's winner, Monsters vs Aliens. Instead, it more than doubled the second-weekend numbers of the DreamWorks animated comedy - though $33.5 million isn't a measly amount for a movie everybody rushed to way back in late March...
Love, heartbreak, and moving have become popular clichés in movies, TV dramas, and novels. However, present these themes during the outbreak of the AIDS epidemic and make angels crash out of the sky, and you’ve got an epic theatrical production that explores everything from politics to romance to meteors; you’ve got “Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes.” Tony Kushner’s two-play work is the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Company’s first spring Loeb Mainstage production. While the first play...
Damrosch says he loves to find unexpected connections between distant writers. The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh, a recent publication that was his first book for a popular audience, called on the examination of cultural linkages as a response to the Iraq War. “I was impatient with the loose talk about a clash of civilizations,” he says. “I show that if you go back far enough, there is one civilization...
...could be rendered meaningless and dull, but McQueen’s film instead uses this minimalist aesthetic to transcend a simple set of plot details. In its depiction of real-life events, “Hunger” falls in an innovative category between straightforward documentary and dramatized historical epic. Much of the movie resembles visual art rather than film, eschewing dialogue and reportage for a haunting, gruesome, and powerful display of images. Most of the British-born McQueen’s work has been experimental. Famous for his silent films and small gallery projections, he dropped...