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...Cassandra objects to his position as a dictator and as a result he kicks her out of the society. Cassandra gets involved with a group of natives and begins falling in love with one of them. Meanwhile, the castaways’ society is falling apart so they decide to form a rescue mission to go save her. It all sort of converges in the last scene, and hilarity ensues.RR: The plot sounds a little like “Lord of the Flies.”MS: Whenever we tell people about the plot, we get comparisons...

Author: By Jeffrey W. Feldman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ROVING REPORTER | 4/17/2008 | See Source »

...following morning, she was still in deshabille. She lay there awhile on the floor, watching the specks of dust floating in the sunlight that streamed through the casement. The morning caressed her stomach and thighs, which, as they usually did, looked perfect. Her head ached. She could not form a coherent thought.But with consciousness came recollection, and the images of the night just past swarmed to confront her: the empty decanter of brandy, her dead turtle Orlando, and, looming above all else, he who had wronged her once again. She could not believe that she had allowed herself...

Author: By Lesley R. Winters, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Stable Boy | 4/17/2008 | See Source »

...necklacing,” a violent execution tactic endorsed by Winnie Mandela during Apartheid. Mandela, sitting in the front row surrounded by bodyguards, simply laughed. “You’ve got guts,” one of the bodyguards said after the show. Uys responded in characteristic form: “Can I keep the guts?”“Elections & Erections” is similarly irreverent, lampooning everyone from Archbishop Desmond Tutu to Nigerian president Robert Mugabe. “I want to offend everyone in the audience at least once,” says...

Author: By Mark A. Vanmiddlesworth, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Uy's 'Erections' Pokes Fun at Politics | 4/17/2008 | See Source »

...audience laughed in response. Despite the heavy subject matter of the film, McCarthy seemed to move from serious issues, such as immigration, to lighter topics with relative ease. Whatever the political nuances that viewers may draw from his latest picture, McCarthy sees his film principally as a form of entertainment, which aims to be as gripping as possible. “My job is to tell a good story and have people disappear into a movie for one and a half hours—but its nice to have people rally around...

Author: By Betsy L. Mead, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ‘Visitor’ Invites Inquiry | 4/17/2008 | See Source »

...simply and cleanly to the reversal of the “apple a day” adage. After too many years with not enough apples in the modern diet, it’s the doctor’s turn to give the apple—this time in the form of a recipe or two for baked apples and homemade apple sauce. According to this philosophy, if cooking returns to its roots and becomes commonplace knowledge among members of a society, the rate of packaged food consumption will decrease dramatically. Along with this sharp decline in processed food, the American...

Author: By Rebecca A. Cooper, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Wedding Bell Peppers for Food and Health | 4/17/2008 | See Source »

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