Word: fates
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...fate of the kingdom of Rohan is hanging by a thread as the evil Orcs swarm the mountain fortress of Helm?s Deep. Under blood-red clouds, Aragorn and his small band of men stand shoulder to shoulder against the invading hordes, who are hobbling around on freakish weapon/crutches. The elf warrior Legolas mounts a promontory to fire arrows at the Orc targets: FFWWOOSH, FFWWOOSH, FFWWOOSH...
...content of a divergent opinion, but to dismiss it as “extreme” or out of bounds. Through their attacks on me, my colleagues during the meeting and after were warning others not to step out of line lest they invite the same contempt. Imagine the fate of any junior faculty member who might share my point of view on such issues as the importance of ROTC on campus, the pernicious effects of group preferences for women in hiring, or the dangers of anti-Semitism in its latest anti-Zionist manifestation. (I know of only...
...medium provoked dialogue for him and his peers. He says, “Films had the power to move us. We’d talk for hours about how it was put together, what it said about the world.”Moss also outlines his worry for the fate of documentary film—a personal and relatively solitary art—in a capitalist nation, noting that “capitalism’s genius is taking forms that are meant to be transgressive and commodifying them.” Whether when working to determine if narrative should...
Ironically, the direst predictions about the fate of the blockbuster come from the man whose mega-grossing films helped coin the term, George Lucas. In a recent interview with New York Daily News, the “Star Wars” mogul predicted that by 2025 the average budget of a studio film would be $15 million—less than most A-list stars’ asking salaries...
...said without skipping a beat.Some freshmen have been analyzing the sociology of the system.Lena Chen ’09 and her blockmates initially considered linking with another large blocking group. But she wrote in an e-mail last week that this could potentially lead to a “fate worse than death.” “We probably do have a better chance of getting quadded [because] we’re big,” wrote Chen, who is also a Crimson editor for Fifteen Minutes. But unlike DeSimone, Chen said that linking would guarantee...