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...absent resident.Most of the residents who are home offer Murphy nothing more than a handshake and a smile after hearing his overtures. However, Murphy speaks with residents for as long as they wish, sometimes for more than 10 minutes. One Porter Square resident, Glenn Heinmiller, chats with Murphy at length about issues ranging from homelessness to local diversity. Near the end of their conversation, Murphy makes a quick call on his cell phone to find out where Heinmiller should go to get an absentee ballot.The hallmark of door-to-door work, Murphy says, lies in its variety...
...style, Tricked (Top Shelf Productions; $20), by Alex Robinson, comes from an author who works in large scale. His first graphic novel, Box Office Poison (2001), spent over 500 pages examining the lives of a group of 20-somethings living in New York. Tricked gets more focused, both in length (only 350 pages!) and ambition. Carefully and cleverly structured to weave six separate stories together into a climax, Tricked reveals both the pitfalls and the appeal of this increasingly popular kind of narrative...
...people can harness a thousand words’ worth of potential from a single image. Abigail Child ’68 is one exception. Child is a director of short films, a genre that suggests a trimming down of the plot, character development, and thematic material of full-length movies. Yet her 20-minute and 40-minute shorts resonate as strongly as anything longer, mainly because of her unique filmmaking style. Combining elements of montage, documentary, and the avant-garde, she creates subtexts where none previously existed, stories where they may not have been found, and symbols out of everyday...
...class—but a professor with class at a popular time can just as easily stop lecture seven minutes before the hour. Sure, some professors will stop late; but that happens now anyway, with some professors running well beyond the tolling of Memorial Church bells. The length of class will not be changed, just shifted. At this point, the question becomes how to get this noble idea off of paper and into practice. Good question. I certainly don’t trust the student body (or, hell, myself) to take on such a responsible initiative. That leaves the faculty...
Soper and Washington have already made one change from last year, reducing the length of the House competition by starting after spring break instead of before...