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...during his time in Kars,” our narrator—who will later identify himself as “Orhan”—informs us.Ka, a poet and occasional journalist, has returned to Istanbul after a 12-year political exile in Germany to attend his mother??s funeral. A journalist friend offers Ka the opportunity to see what Turkey is “really like” after his absence: Ka will travel to the remote hamlet of Kars near the Russian border to cover a story on a series of suicides amongst female...
...dinner conversations and we would discuss them,” she says. Her voice rises to a playful falsetto, “The Civil War, is it Christian or not? And the War of Independence, was it right?” Karin Jentoft echoes her mother??s frustration with oversimplified attitudes towards homeschoolers.“The stereotype is being ultra-sheltered with a skewed view on reality,” Karin says. “Very far right.” While Karin Jentoft realizes the inaccuracy of these stereotypes, she does not offer her experience...
...Tess M. Ponce ’07 has three tattoos, but she sees Harvard tatts as slight overkill. “Isn’t the fucking degree enough?” she said, upon hearing that some students went for crimson ink. Hey, it beats having your estranged mother??s name on your...
...eighth album in her 37-year career is marked by a darker, more sober tone than many past offerings, most strongly resembling 2003’s “World Without Tears.” The album’s generally downbeat vibe is reportedly inspired by both her mother??s death and the turbulent end of a love affair, and both get examined in myriad ways. In the song “Mama You Sweet,” she introduces the grief caused by the loss of her mother: “And the pain...
...with “Children of Men”). Of the three films, “Pan’s Labyrinth” simultaneously has the most childlike thematic material and the most graphic violence. Minimalist-influenced music by composer Javier Navarrete, which builds on the theme of a mother??s lullaby, plays during intense visual depictions of gory births and deaths. In interviews, del Toro has attributed some of this familiarity with violence to his upbringing in the still-violent culture of Mexico, and that seems to make sense—only someone who has seen beheadings...