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Robin Williams is a dangerous guy. Or maybe he and the people who make his movies just think he?s a dangerous guy. There is an unwillingness to just let him rear back and spritz for the length of a movie - as if they fear we, in the audience, will grow tired of his gift, often amounting a form of genius, for surrealistic free-association. They are always giving us, as writer-director Barry Levinson does in Man of the Year, tastes and tidbits of Williams in full cry, the while looking for calming cutaways, subplots and diversions that will...
...short-term solutions to their problems, they all go to a sex cabaret called Shortbus. (Explanation of the title: back in grammar school the "normal" kids got to ride the regular-length schoolbus, while "the gifted and challenged" rode the short bus.) Among the denizens are a courtly older gent, who bears a passing resemblance to a former bachelor mayor of New York, and the cabaret's host, real-life male diva Justin Bond (aka Kiki of the Broadway duo Kiki & Herb). "It's just like the '60s," he says of the entanglement of bodies in the orgy room, "only...
...with proximity to mortality. An artist considerate of his or her audience composes these moments with a precise and practiced eye, unearthing images of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks without forcing us to relive the horrific experience in its protracted entirety. The violation of this tacit standard of acceptable length both endows Oliver Stone’s recent film “World Trade Center” with tremendous emotional force and casts it as an excruciating exercise in emotional and sensory masochism. The film depicts the “true life events” of Port Authority Police officers...
...said Segovia.A bill sponsored by Senator John Cornyn, R-Texas, would provide aid to students who find themselves in Segovia’s position. The bill would increase the annual number of H-1B visas to 115,000 and would double the length of OPT eligibility to 24 months. But according to the Library of Congress, no major action has been taken on this measure—or its companion House bill—since June.The current 65,000-visa cap on H-1Bs is reached at a different point each year, so Class of ’07 students...
...pioneer. According to Interim President Derek C. Bok, Verba is preparing to retire, saying he wants to spend more time doing research. He will step down at the end of the academic year, after being first appointed in 1984 and leading a distinguished career as HUL director of length only matched by Thaddeus W. Harris, Class of 1815, who held an equivalent position from 1831 to 1856. We hope that as Verba leaves his post, his vision to digitize Widener carries forward...