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That experience proved vital, as the two secured a quick 7-3 tiebreak win on a Brown double-fault...

Author: By Rebecca A. Seesel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: M. Tennis Takes Ivy Title With Wins | 4/26/2004 | See Source »

...said, Ebert has a wonderful mind and writes with more maturity and unforced eloquence than most of the Film Comment feeders; his perspectives and passions have certainly informed mine a great deal over the last ten years. I’d also say that I can’t fault him for pushing his “Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down” catchphrases any more than I can fault politicians for pushing their campaign slogans; the fact that something is gimmicky and commercial need neither demean its medium nor degrade its own usefulness. With all the time that...

Author: By Ben B. Chung and Ben Soskin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Does Roger Ebert Matter? | 4/23/2004 | See Source »

...seen as the kung fu cowboy, Tarantino’s films always seem to fall flat with the suspicion that his work is not the product of genius, but of an uncanny number of late nights in front of the television. This view of Tarantino is perhaps his own fault, since in interviews he so often harps on the elements of pop culture in his films—on the cool. But Tarantino, the cool director, is not the man who concocted the stunning dialogue of Pulp Fiction, the pulsing narrative of Reservoir Dogs, or the lurching beauty of Kill...

Author: By Zachary M. Seward, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Film Review: Kill Bill, Vol. 2 | 4/23/2004 | See Source »

Indeed, most of the work shown remains incomprehensible unless understood as a solution to a problem given in the design studio. Yet a basic fault of the exhibition is that the explanations of most of the problems are couched in such artsy jargon that they are indecipherable. For example, pieces of cardboard tubing cut from a big, cylindrical roll and reassembled into different forms could perhaps be justified as a design experiment. But to state the problem as the "re-formation of a rigidly geometrical object into a unified structure, which visually interrelates all active elements," gives the cardboard forms...

Author: By Lydia Robinson, | Title: Ten Years of Problems | 4/23/2004 | See Source »

Indeed, most of the work shown remains incomprehensible unless understood as a solution to a problem given in the design studio. Yet a basic fault of the exhibition is that the explanations of most of the problems are couched in such artsy jargon that they are indecipherable. For example, pieces of cardboard tubing cut from a big, cylindrical roll and reassembled into different forms could perhaps be justified as a design experiment. But to state the problem as the "re-formation of a rigidly geometrical object into a unified structure, which visually interrelates all active elements," gives the cardboard forms...

Author: By Lydia Robinson, | Title: Ten Years of Problems | 4/22/2004 | See Source »

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