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...infuriating to hear New Haven written off as “the ghetto” by privileged, clueless students, be they from Harvard or Yale. The label is racially tinged and exceedingly unfair. New Haven—with its diversity, its postindustrial economy, its regenerating urban life??is increasingly what America looks like...
Harvard Right to Life??s controversial publicity campaign, which has been waged on entryway bulletin boards and in a display outside the Science Center, has moved on to a new frontier: door-boxes...
Zwick says that if there’s any one link between his film and television endeavors—he has also worked on network shows including “Once and Again” and “My So-Called Life??—it’s his preoccupation with cultures and societies in the midst of a transformation. He says he found Japan’s route to modernity to be a “particularly wrenching transition,” and thus chose to zoom in on an aspect...
...voice-over narration device that guided the unfolding events of “My So-Called Life?? is echoed in The Last Samurai, as well as in Glory. In the two films, however, the narrator is mostly reading from personal letters written about war’s hardships and rewards. Zwick believes that the voice-over technique is not just a narrative device, but also a vehicle for authenticity...
...Called Life?? there was an unreliable narrator. She wasn’t necessarily giving the most accurate portrayal of her experience, and that was part of the point. But in the case of The Last Samurai and in others like Glory, it was an epistolary age,” Zwick says. “People did write their thoughts; they kept journals. Sixty percent of the West Point class of 1854 published journals, nonfiction accounts of what they had done. I felt that this was in keeping with the character and the time...