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...crafty camera work. Split-screen frames and smooth transitions are evidence of Parise’s creativity. Nevertheless, no amount of artistic flair can rescue the film from a handful of unnecessary and downright nonsensical scenes—such as a slap fight between Jack and his best friend, a moment that’s neither humorous nor important to the plot. Though a few superfluous lines are expected in any film, the already short 89-minute “Jack and Jill vs. the World” digresses too far with a tangential storyline involving Jack?...
Kyle G.K. Chen ’10 said he did not receive an e-mail informing him that his section scheduled for 10:00 a.m. had been canceled. He said that he and a friend played frisbee in front of Widener Library instead...
...spent abroad in Lithuania, in which Togut’s interest in Yiddish music began to blossom. “When I was in Lithuania, every Friday we had Shabbas Kiddush where we all go to the Jewish center,” she says. “A good friend of mine had a book of Yiddish music, and we would all crowd around the piano, and we would sing all of these songs after dinner. I learned a lot of the folk songs that are in the show in Lithuania.”The idea to incorporate these songs...
...stay, he refuses.Lahiri’s simple, direct prose belies the careful plotted nature of her narratives; all is revealed in a single telling detail and the relationships that seem so stable are upended. When Ruma discovers a postcard that her father had written to his lady friend that her son borrowed and attempted to plant in the earth, she gazes again at the hydrangea. She now correctly reads the hydrangea’s signification as her father’s attempt to ground his itinerant lifestyle choice, his affirmation of a self that doesn?...
...weeks ago, I found myself discursive as the resident authority on burglary and subversion. I had a friend from high school visit for a weekend in lovely Cambridge. After I brought her around the yard and showed her the Square, the hunger struck. Of course, the average college budget precludes eating every meal at a taqueria or trattoria. So rather than follow the Donner Party’s grisly lead, we had to resort to lawlessness...