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Though the narrative is depicted with a bizarre sense of detachment, Rosetta becomes completely absorbing and engrossing. In particular, fascination evolves regarding the heroine's character. Where other directors might have tried to arouse sympathy and pathos through various devices, the Dardennes refuse to present her as a victim; conversely...
Las Vegas is Disney World up 30 notches times 30 hotels. It's the ultimate postmodern landscape--a dizzying simulacrum of our collective consciousness. In other words, it is pop culture. Just take a virtual journey down the Strip--the pirate-themed Treasure Island, the luxurious tropical visions at the...
I was in Amherst briefly yesterday and stopped by the town center. I stood in admiration of the intellectual life surrounding me--Amherst is Emily Dickinson's hometown and also a famous seat of learning in New England, with the presence of Amherst College, Hampshire College and the University of...
But whether these counter-activists are successful is beside the point. The administration of Amherst Regional High School has taught its students an inadvertent but incredibly damaging lesson in this controversy--that protest, in the absence of explanation or discussion, can prevent free expression, performance and education.
Giuliani's attempt last year to put a homeless shelter in the district of an uncooperative councilman eventually fizzled, but this fall alone city hall has cut off funds from a museum whose paintings the mayor found offensive, torpedoed the federal grants of an AIDS service organization whose protest tactics...