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...headlines as much for who he was as for who he is. Freston, the new co-president of media giant Viacom, had been chairman and CEO of MTV Networks, whose MTV, Nickelodeon and Comedy Central channels make it the lifeline to the youth market. One of Freston's missions from Viacom boss Sumner Redstone is to freshen the image and, more important, goose the profits of Paramount Pictures, the most geriatric of the Hollywood studios. So when the company's new Mr. Big showed up at the iconic indie-film festival, media types saw it as a signal of revolutionary...
...acknowledge the theological conundrums posed by a world of Übermenschen). This story delves into what a police precinct would be like with one of the detectives secretly parading around as the Spirit of Vengeance: the supply person who forgets to order a three-ring hole punch has giant holes punched into his body; the guy wasting paper is changed into a giant tree that is cut down by the Spectre; and the whistling postman has his head turned into a giant whistle...
...hand, the story is filled with events familiarly annoying from everyday life and thus accessible. Wouldn’t you just like to turn the bad-smelling kid from section into a giant bar of soap? The drawings also define the story. Without the pictures, there would be no way of seeing the underlying pathos to a seemingly funny situation. The embodiment of God’s wrath is unarguably pathetic as Corrigan is left alone to stare at his Rookie of the Year photo, while his police comrades go home to loving wives...
...activity was not unusual for Hwang, who has long explored similarly bizarre hobbies. Earlier this year you could find him sticking dozens of painted cardboard penguins in the grass outside the Science Center, or announcing, through a bullhorn, numbers from the endless sequence of pi. He recently hung a giant eye in his Canaday window overlooking Annenberg, and ominously thundered instructions at the people walking below. The threat was swiftly dealt with by Harvard University Police, who paid him a visit in his room and demanded he cease his activities immediately. Hwang began working with Present! after meeting Alex...
...Cube, for example, was part of a Visual and Environmental Studies thesis on disturbing and manipulating public space, written by member David D. Mahfouda ’05. “Basically we were building a giant problem to put in the middle of the Yard and see what happened,” explains Coll...