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Even if you don’t have Nintendo blisters, the latest Final Fantasy installment cannot fail to impress you. Final Fantasy 10 is the first one for Playstation 2, and the animation astounds. Walking on water set afire by sunset, a barefooted summoner performs the rites of an imagined planet, freeing the souls of the dead in nimbuses of colored light. Soldiers wading knee-high into battle are obliterated by a radial shockwave, leaving dashes of black dust on the ignited air. (Animation can be dark: to Japanese artists, this is a news flash from Planet Obvious.) The landscapes...
...What free-market Republicans believe deep down - that 401(k)s started as an IRS-induced way for companies to lure talent and impress employees, and should stay that way and out of the government's bailiwick - is getting obscured by a political drive to make voters feel safe from the vagaries of the market. But what Democrats believe deep down - that government should itself make sure those employees' retirements are safe from the vagaries of the market - can't ever really happen. And so the mad piling of laws on top of laws - and loopholes on top of loopholes...
...this attempt at being funny more often than not fails to impress...
This obviously isn’t the composed stiletto and cigar crowd of Pravda 116 or the cheesy eurotrash crowd of Roxy, both of which are around the corner. While those house and trance clubs are about dressing to impress (and, one must admit, even ravers have their claim to fashion-consciousness), the ideal drum ’n’ bass weekly is all about keeping it real and relaxed. Unpretentious except in regards to their unpretentiousness, drum ’n’ bass raves have also been noted as the gathering place of the scum...
Whatever one expects from this Titus, however, it certainly should not be the same-old. Gabriele, who has worked on over fifteen Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club shows and directed last semester’s Oleanna in the Loeb Experimental Theater, wants his production to impress. “Really, I’d like this show to be very powerful, to feel very real. [For example], there’s a lot of misery in this play, a lot of death, and the deaths have to feel real. If the audience perceives even one death as ‘theatrical...