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...plates worth of food—doesn’t come close to addressing the root of the problem. Students don’t consider the costs of their meals because their meals don’t have a cost. If HUDS charged for food on an à-la-carte basis, waste and over-consumption would dramatically decrease. Under the current system, the amount that people pay for food is unrelated to how much they eat, or even how many meals they attend. The cost of each meal is effectively borne by the entire student body, creating a classic...
...prove his identity. “I have a birthmark,” Walken said. “So gimme the thing!” But Teslik and Lachter, egged on by raucous cheering from the audience, insisted that Walken dance, sing, tell fortunes—à la his role in the film “The Dead Zone”—and read out a recipe for hasty pudding in his “best Christopher Walken voice.” As the actor attempted to serenade a cast member with a number from his recent...
...most significant figures in Catalan cinema today. Guerín’s films can be described as “environment documentaries,” which capture a character, his surroundings, and the tension that exists between the two. “En la ciudad de Sylvia,” the first movie presented, is composed of the rich sights and sounds of the title character’s city. Guerín filmed the city’s inhabitants, as opposed to filling it with hundreds of “extras.” He noted that maybe...
...certain of two things. One, you’re crazy. And two, you might just end up being a pretty successful rap star (cf. Kanye). But not long into “Gimme That,” it becomes sorrowfully clear that self-centeredness à la Mr. West does not necessarily make a good rap video. The video begins with the St. Louis rapper nodding off in a chair, followed by a zoom-in on a table in the foreground. A stack of magazines lies on the table, the content of which seems to entirely focus on?...
...Sweeney Todd He's fierce, wondrous, haunted, funny, scary--and on key Daniel Day-Lewis There Will Be Blood A superb actor in an opaque role--it's all snarl, no soul Julie Christie Away from Her She radiates the vague cunning of dementia, its creeping oblivion Marion Cotillard La Vie en Rose Her Edith Piaf has the big gestures but lacks the sad internal music