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...Just about every other plot and effects element in Cloverfield is familiar. The movie is basically the 1954 Godzilla (itself a gloss on Ray Harryhausen's 1953 The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, in which a prehistoric beast is roused by atomic tests to terrorize New York City) told in the style of, and with the characters from, The Blair Witch Project (but with a lot less internal cohesion; this could be called "The Blair Witch Reject"). The State of Liberty head comes from the poster for John Carpenter's Escape from New York (though that shot...
...good life. Five husbands, a trip to Canterbury, and 600 years later, she’s still as sassy as ever. —Emily G.W. Chau ’08 is the outgoing Campus Arts editor. She apologizes to her thesis advisor in advance for her gross gloss of the Wife of Bath...
...Dead,” in which the apparition of the late Edward Said appears as a lunch date. Over Chinese food, he describes the work he’s ostensibly undertaken since his passing: composing a symphony.Perhaps we can read in Said’s apparition a gloss to the collection’s title: in Said’s real posthumously published work “On Late Style,” he writes about artists whose work acquires a new idiom near the end of their lives, contending that “late-style Beethoven, remorselessly alienated...
Marketing, however, can’t gloss over the truth forever. What transpires down at the end of JFK Street is not the catalysis of idealism but rather a sort of cotillion for political nerds. It absorbs every freshman looking to exercise their obligations as a citizen and churns out a mixture of political technicians, professional hand-shakers, and disillusioned burnouts...
...tougher to put a positive gloss on the loss of two CDs containing vital personal information about 25 million Britons, including bank details and other data that could be exploited by identity fraudsters. Brown's successor as Chancellor, Alistair Darling, told incredulous colleagues in the House of Commons on Nov. 20 that the discs intended for the National Audit Office had sent by the standard courier service used for internal government mail by an official at the government department HM Revenue & Customs, flouting guidelines on the security of such data. The discs never reached their destination...