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...toys. Their thumbs are more agile; their eyes can read the print. This is alarming for adults in all kinds of ways: kids suddenly want the same toys we have, which they understand better and use in ways we can't imagine. Parents once stayed up late on Christmas Eve assembling train sets. Now our children program our gadgets for us, surreptitiously switch our ring tones, leave notes on the screens. It's a dramatic reckoning with the inevitable transfer of power that occurs as children get older. It's their world now: we're just surfing through...
...invitation, following two years of apprenticeship, came on the eve of Zornow’s departure for Cambridge...
...reconsideration of what heroism is.” In addition to a complete reading of the entire poem, the Milton marathon included a re-enactment of the climactic moment when Adam, played by Benjamin M. Woodring, who is in his first year of the English PhD program, and Eve, played by Danielle C. Kijewski ’11, eat the forbidden fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Adorned with loincloths and fig-leaves, they made resounding crunches from apples for added emphasis. Over the course of the night, the nearly two dozen participants whittled down...
Like children waiting for Santa on Christmas Eve, moviegoers had hopes for this one. Vince Vaughn and David Dobkin, the star and director of Wedding Crashers, reunite for a holiday comedy scripted by Dan Fogelman (one of the screenwriters of the Pixar movie Cars). Supporting Vaughn as the black sheep of the Claus clan and Paul Giamatti as Santa, the picture's got three Academy Award winners: Kathy Bates as their mother, Rachel Weisz as Fred's ill-used girlfriend and Kevin Spacey as a corporate type threatening to close down Santa's workshop. Giamatti and Miranda Richardson, who plays...
...Fred seizes the reins from his ailing brother and makes the Christmas Eve round-the-world tour himself. He brings the joy of getting to every child, including the Afro-American orphan, and there is joy in every land, and at the North Pole. It's all meant to bring edifying moisture to audiences' eyes. The more susceptible moviegoers may shed a tear or two, but they risk hating themselves in the morning. On the upside, they don't have to wait to hate Fred Claus...