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Motel Blues is a series of episodes in the lives of photographer Jarred (Jay Heath) and his vapid girlfriend Flee (Angelina Zappia), who have travelled to a remote rat-trap hotel in the desert so that Jarred can complete a project. It quickly becomes clear, however, that their relationship is strained and distrustful; the ugly monotony of their surroundings matches the emptiness of their bizarre conversations The strain is increased by Jarred's evident contempt for Flee's favorite activities, reading fashion magazines and eating junk food...
Jarred's character is more problematic because it is potentially more complex. He is cast as the artist to Flee's pop-culture consumer, but as played by Heath the character vacillates between dignity, ironic detachmet and mere roguishness. If Jarred had more emotional depth throughout, his gradual alienation and his photographic rape of Flee would have been all the more terrifying. This interpretation can be glimpsed only at times, and it is undermined by the decision to give Jarred a visually distracting spiked dog-collar, suggesting a punk persona that is not (and should not be) reflected...
...division that championed derivatives-financial instruments that use the public's massive bet on securities to create a parallel universe of side bets, some straightforward (like futures) and others arcane (like swaptions). Derivatives helped the Tokyo unit make huge amounts of money-the kind of money that made Christopher Heath, the head of Baring Securities who was pushing these instruments, Britain's highest paid executive. The Tokyo team, says a former Barings manager there, "was a loose group having a really exciting time. We'd laugh if someone had had only an hour of sleep a night. There were days...
...National Institutes of Heath issued a formal request for a proposal, tactfully giving it the bland title "Social and Behavioral Aspects of Fertility Related Behavior" in an attempt to slip under the radar of right- wing politicians. But the euphemism fooled no one - least of all Jesse Helms. In the Reagan and Bush era, any government funding for sex research was suspect, and the Senator from North Carolina was soon lobbying to have the project killed. The Chicago team redesigned the study several times to assuage conservative critics, dropping the questions about masturbation and agreeing to curtail the interview once...
...talking," said Jen J. Heath '98, a Canaday F resident. "The line's better than the line for the ethernet card. That was awful...