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...SousVideMagic ($159) works in conjunction with a rice cooker. The SousVide Supreme ($450), which came out in November, is a self-contained unit about the size of a microwave. I decided to test-drive the top of the line: an immersion circulator from PolyScience ($1,129), which, unlike its less expensive brethren, ensures precisely heated water throughout the process...
While Teddy tries to separate the insanity on the island from his own reality, Scorsese interlaces the more or less straightforward filming of the interrogation scenes with the hallucinogenic tragic realism of Teddy's nightmares. At Dachau, corpses stir and papers flutter; with his wife, the camera executes a 360 around the couple as Dolores dissolves in Teddy's embrace, her ashes swirling around the room. A grieving man's conversation with his dearly departed has become a peculiar subtheme in a half-dozen recent movies, from Up last summer to Edge of Darkness a few weeks...
Touch of Evil That's partly because Teddy feels estranged from the island's less ethereal inhabitants. DiCaprio makes Teddy sometimes cagey-witty, sometimes stupid (he keeps mispronouncing escape as excape). Gruff and heavier than usual, with a few days' beard, he could be channeling Orson Welles' wily lawman in Touch of Evil. The onetime heartthrob from Titanic has always been a shifty character actor in a movie star's body. A star performance here would give the audience someone to root for; DiCaprio instead provides them with the spectacle of a creature fighting to creep toward a freedom that...
...Less than two hours earlier, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne S. Duncan ’86 had finished speaking about his Race to the Top initiative, which seeks to address disparities in access to quality education across the nation...
...because surely the “HAR” on the results sheet must have been a typo, a simple one-letter mistake. It seemed impossible that a Harvard skier could have really placed sixth in the EISA Championships, hosted by Middlebury. But, in fact, Cara Sprague had, finishing less than a minute slower than overall winner Katie Bono of the Big Green...