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...these picturesque, slightly kitschy touches still don’t quite succeed in distracting from the work’s insubstantiality. “A novel in fragments” may be the phrase of choice in the marketing materials, but the truth is that “Laura” is hardly more than an assemblage of disconnected scribblings; reading diligently, one can get through the entire thing in under an hour. The difference in quality between this and Nabokov’s other works, too, is painfully clear. However much Nabokov’s other posthumously published work...
While the intentions behind this method of advertising colleges to students may have been laudable, the new tactic’s negative effects are troubling. Universities should strive to strike a middle ground between attracting applicants and maintaining the process of self-discovery endemic to the applicant experience. Rather than transforming college applications into a mindless chore, each school can opt to send outstanding candidates personal messages explaining that fees have been waived because the college has a particular interest in those particular students...
...aimed to establish springboards for careers in the arts by creating a Master’s of Fine Arts program for visual artists and a Dramatic Arts concentration. But for the moment, Dramatic Arts has been relegated to secondary field status. The prospects of having a Dramatic Arts concentration may be exciting for Hollywood hopefuls, but others have expressed unease with the monopolistic effect it may have on the campus theater scene...
While the storyline focusing on the difficulty of maintaining relationships in a time of war may mirror the lives of members of the Armed Forces today, Tatum and Seyfried predict a much larger audience could also relate to the central themes of “Dear John.” Tatum says, “I think we could have taken John out of the military and made him anything else as long as that distance and time was between them and things come down the road that they don’t expect... This is a story [about...
Though this tale of young pretty people falling in and out of love may be somewhat conventional, Seyfried and Tatum contend that “Dear John” helps to fill a generic deficiency. “When ‘The Notebook’ came out, people were running to see that movie because I think there’s a real lack of movies like that,” says Tatum...