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...Because one of the central characters (Mark, played by Anthony Rapp) is a freelance filmmaker, I half expected a plot twist that would reveal the movie to be “his” documentary of his and his friends’ lives—that at least would explain the enterprise’s amateur production value.A few of the film’s scenes do succeed: The “Santa Fe” musical number is especially inspired. The cast performs the song in a crowded subway car and recruits unsuspecting commuters into their impromptu revelry. Keith...
...stretch upwards from amid the gray-brown clutter of Jessica Y. Yin ’01’s sculpture table. “My project is based on the idea of modularity of the body,” Yin, a fourth year Graduate School of Design (GSD) student, explains as she globs more silicone onto several damaged fingers. Her classmates are similarly engaged: Dismembered plaster torsos, a plump balloon-hand dripping silicone, and strangely solitary feet and toes litter the studio floor.Surrounded by severed body parts, the students of VES 130r: “Criticality, the Body...
...mail—dated October 25 and forwarded to the Currier House open list with the name of A.D. President Ferdinand C. Martignetti ’06 written at the bottom—the author attempted to explain a recent crack-down by the A.D.’s graduate board. The punishment included a three-week ban on “females”—I assume the author meant women but perhaps the ban included females of other species too—on Thursday and Saturday nights. The e-mail read...
First, people explain that they already give to charity, or promise that they will when they graduate and start earning income. That’s great, but it does not resolve the problem. Let’s say that, right before seeing the drowning child, you had just donated $10,000 to save dying children in South Asia. Would you then just let the child drown right in front of you? If not—that is, if saving the life of a random child were still worth more than $500 to you—why didn?...
Most visitors to North Korea find the place weird, but can't quite explain why. On a rare trip last month, another traveler told me it was like going to ?the moon, with people.? I had my own epiphany: North Korea is Pleasantville. Just as in the Gary Ross satire of the 1950s sit-com vision of reality, life in the kingdom of Dear Leader Kim Jong Il is always as pleasant as a picture postcard. The streets are tidy and orderly, the citizens patriotic and the children sing in perfect harmony. From the plastic flowers in the hotels...