Word: greeks
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...that Coppola has shaken the blahs, he'll get back behind the camera again and start shooting a script of his own - still not Megalopolis - in Argentina in February. Tetro, starring Matt Dillon and Javier Bardem, is "about fathers and brothers and creative competition, a little Greek." In September thieves broke into Coppola's home studio in Buenos Aires. "Five guys tied up the people, stabbed the photographer in the shoulder when he resisted and stole our electronics," including Coppola's computer with the Tetro script on it and his backup drives. "The script was finished. It made Hamlet look...
...British Museum The shop at the world's oldest national museum has replica sculptures to match every décor. The winged head of Hypnos, the Greek god of sleep ($1,018) suits serene surroundings, and a head of Apollo, god of music, would look good on any piano ($4,024). Eggheads will enjoy playing with a replica Lewis chess set ($200), one of which featured in the first Harry Potter movie. www.britishmuseum.co.uk...
...This was not a torture scene out of some fictional story, but rather a real moment in the saga of underground pledging to become a member of a Black Greek Letter organization. For far too long, men and women across the country, and yes, even at Harvard, have been participants in illegal or “underground” pledging activities that have subjected them to physical, emotional, and mental abuse, all in the name of black solidarity. The silence of these victims is simultaneously coerced and demanded by current and former allegiances, fear of punishment, embarrassment, and even self...
...like so many other students, had read numerous articles on hazing and was given plenty authoritative warnings about illegal pledging. Despite these admonitions, I was certain nothing “bad” would happen to me. After all, being Greek is a socially acceptable aspect of the African-American community. Elevated and popularized by movies like “Stomp the Yard” and by respectable members of the black community and historical figures like Martin Luther King, Jr. who have donned Greek letters, being a member of black fraternity of sorority retains positive connotations in spite...
...Pebble Ritual,” during which each participant was given a handful of clay and asked to make twelve pebbles, harkening back to man’s first playthings. Subsequently laid out against a blue cloth, they created a clay cosmos, around which the group performed a Greek circle-dance. Drawing upon scientific theories of both the Big Bang and the Gaia Hypothesis, Berensohn emphasized the idea that art precedes science in his impromptu dissertations on topics like the Bible, our existence as “terraqueous beings,” and the living goddess that is the Earth...