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Confession of a movie-mad youth: I enjoyed seeing pictures of all kinds, and by my early teens had become a little connoisseur of certain actors, directors and genres-all American, since I was an American kid, and since Hollywood product dominated movie theaters. Then one day, at a Philadelphia art house in early 1959, I saw Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal, and saw the light. The knight playing chess with Death, the panorama of medieval questing and suffering, the clowns and flagellants, all convinced me: this was art! There were movies, I knew, and now... there was film...
...around for Kaavya last year. We and everyone else are a semester late. 2.FM: Why this year as opposed to any other year?C: Blogging is becoming something that is more socially acceptable. There’s that, and it’s probably that a lot of college kids are discovering that there’s an alternative to the campus daily. It’s way too tempting to set up blogs that do their own reporting. N: For 25 dollars a month, we can run a website that gets more traffic than 02138. 3.FM: On your website...
...Socol, in her seventh year as a guidance counselor and college advisor at Hunter College High School, a public magnet school in New York City, says that consultants are being used by private school students rather than the public school students at her school. “The kids I find who use the consulting companies are more the private schools who have the funds to use them,” says Socol. “The real kids that need the help aren’t going to find the consulting companies...
...Babel trots out favorite lefty stereotypes, from Third World victims to ugly Americans (and, to be fair, other ugly Westerners). The Moroccan kid who uses a bus for target practice comes off as a poor naf--if he were American, Hollywood would probably treat him as an example of our sick, gun-crazy society. The American couple are the kind of self-absorbed Yanks who jet off to a poor country to be "alone" among thousands of peasants, guarded and distanced from their surroundings, taking their Cokes without ice so as not to drink the water...
...Faust found out that “Marge” was Buell’s mother, she suggested that he consider donating his mother’s work to Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library.“I was a big Little Lulu fan when I was a kid,” Faust said. “It was a really exciting possibility. His mother was clearly a pathbreaker, both in her creativity in designing the cartoon, the artistry involved, and the proto-feminism in this tough little girl.” Faust added that Marjorie Buell was also...