Word: grosse
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Most suspense films these days are high-voltage gross-outs. It took Nakata to restore delicacy to dread with his Japanese hit The Ring and its sequels. His 2002 Dark Water got a Hollywood makeover this year, but the original is the one to see and savor. This fable of a woman and her daughter in a very wet apartment building slowly builds an edifice of fear. Like the other masters of suspense, Nakata makes films that infect viewers with an unease lasting long after the final fadeout. --By Richard Corliss
...created innovative pieces that were different from traditional European music. “A Lincoln Portrait”, written after Pearl Harbor was attacked, resonates with patriotism. The piece includes quotes from Abraham Lincoln’s writings that will be narrated by Dean of Harvard College Benedict H. Gross ’71 as Copland’s music plays in the background. Wei-Jen Yuan ’06, the winner of this year’s HRO Concerto Competition, will be playing Tchaikovsky’s “Piano Concerto No. 1.” Many...
...suburbs of Washington State during the mid-1970s, Black Hole evokes that era's great teenage exploitation movies with its attention to atmospheric detail. It even begins in typical teen horror gross-out fashion, with the two protagonists in biology class, hunched over the slit belly of a supine frog. Shaggy-haired Keith digs the fact that he has been partnered with the "total fox" Chris Rhodes. But as he stares into the spilled amphibian guts he becomes overwhelmed by a dark premonition: "I felt like I was looking into the future?and the future looked pretty messed up." Overwhelmed...
...committee will likely meet for the first time later this fall, and that regular meetings will begin in the spring. The GPC’s membership was finalized this week and will consist of 14 tenured faculty members, including Skocpol, Kirby, and Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross...
This, then, is what Gross pictures when he hears “women’s center”: a small space housing an umbrella organization for student groups and women’s resources located elsewhere on campus...