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There is a fine line between humiliation and degradation, and “Stone” teeters across that line precariously. It strings the audience along through a painfully awkward holiday movie that never finds an appropriate medium between comedy and drama...
...Japanese government announced that 20 condos and one hotel in and around Tokyo designed by architect Hidetsugu Aneha did not meet Japan's strict earthquake-resistance standards. Thirteen buildings, it said, were so poorly protected that they were unlikely to withstand a medium-strength temblor. Most shocking of all: Aneha's work failed to meet codes not due to error or incompetence, but because he knowingly skimped on materials like reinforced steel and then fabricated safety data to indicate projects were in compliance. Aneha, who admitted in a press conference to faking the data, said he had buckled under pressure...
Every artist eventually finds his or her ideal medium. Manet had canvas; Duchamp painted on glass. Certain Lowell house seniors find inspiration in more mundane rectangles of plastic—their designs and text have recently graced many of the Lowell house dining hall trays. Brendan S. Millstein ’06, one of the artist-culprits, is known for textual art in the postmodernist vein. His trademark is the insertion of the word “tray” into an unrelated saying. “April Showers bring Tray Flowers” and the Shakesperean...
...year, around twenty students will graduate from Yale with a major in Film Studies, and at other Ivies the number are similar. Thirty five Cornell students will graduate with Film Studies majors, forty Penn students with Cinema Studies. Despite its prevalence and popularity, the concentration remains relatively small to medium-sized at most Arts and Science colleges. Though U.C Berkeley has offered a group major in Film Studies since 1976, only 120 students are majoring this year, a tiny proportion of the nearly 23,000 undergraduates attending. Nonetheless, that number is ten times the size of the first majoring class...
...coverage and ability to provide a more interactive forum for discussion than the traditional campus media.Daniel A. Koh ’07, the campaign manager for the John F. Voith ’07-Tara Gadgil ’07 ticket, said that the blogs helped to supply a medium that was lacking before.“Conversation goes on as a result of Crimson articles,” he said, “but [the blogs] are a great way to engage in the larger public forum. People like to express their opinion in a real-time environment, keep...