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...dialogue becomes grating, however, when the film’s characters stop following normal conversation patterns, and instead begin to communicate with speeches that sound like contrived publicity blurbs for art shows. “Your work pushes the boundaries of modern thought, thrusting past the limitations of human emotion and cognition to create the ultimate expression of human consciousness,” Madeleine enthuses to an artist during a show. These kinds of inflated, preposterous mini-monologues quickly grow tiresome, and instead of humorously mocking the bourgeoisie art world, they come across as simply an irksome staple...

Author: By Clio C. Smurro, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: (Untitled) | 11/13/2009 | See Source »

Krishna M. Prabhu ’11, a member of the Harvard chapter of the Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM), said that he thought that medical patents were problematic and adversely affect human health in developing countries such as India and China...

Author: By Linda Zhang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Pledges To Make Medical Technology Accessible | 11/13/2009 | See Source »

...initial version, Prabhu was also indirectly quoted as saying that patents adversely impact human health worldwide. In fact, his concerns about patents were specifically made with respect to developing nations...

Author: By Linda Zhang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Pledges To Make Medical Technology Accessible | 11/13/2009 | See Source »

...seeing the aforementioned musical, I will empathize with the early loss of loved ones, the sense of stark loneliness, and the tortured mind that defined this misunderstood poet. Through “Nevermore,” director Joe DeMita is able to convey the Gothic writer as twisted but human, a man whose depth of emotion, experience, and feeling typifies the inevitable solitude of a writer...

Author: By B. marjorie Gullick, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ‘Nevermore’ Reimagines Poe | 11/13/2009 | See Source »

Most students agree that these drugs don’t provide creative thoughts; rather, they loosen the constraints of a rational human mind and build the confidence necessary to express unique or nonsensical ideas. “Drugs can sometimes facilitate a person’s ability to differently represent the creativity that is already inside him,” says Justin B. Wymer ’12, a poet, who admits to occasionally using alcohol outside of its societally-sanctioned role as a conversation starter and instead as a literary jumpstart...

Author: By Noël D. Barlow and Eunice Y. Kim, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: High Art | 11/13/2009 | See Source »

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