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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...girls; she never really has. She plays women. Unsentimentalized, restless, troubled, discontented, disconcerted, difficult women. And clearly, it's working for her. Her two most recent performances - as Hanna Schmitz, the illiterate former concentration-camp guard in The Reader, and as April Wheeler, the anguished, rageful 1950s wife and mother in Revolutionary Road - have earned her two Golden Globes, a Screen Actors Guild prize, a British Academy Award (BAFTA) and her sixth Oscar nomination, a benchmark that no actor so young has ever before reached. (See the Oscar's youngest Best Actress nominees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Actress: Kate Winslet's Moment | 2/19/2009 | See Source »

...They are about sexuality, which is the intellectual and political act of experiencing one’s identity through the logic of sex. What I try to do in my courses is to try to avoid idealizing sex and fearing sex. 2. FM: What does your mother think? MBK: If she were a student I think she’d be the first person to study these courses. In fact, students invite their parents to my lectures all the time. I think it’s my job to give people the intellectual tools to speak comfortably about uncomfortable things...

Author: By Stephanie M. Woo, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Matthew B. Kaiser | 2/18/2009 | See Source »

...building when it was completed in 1963, only to accuse the contractor of building it upside down. Others insist that Corbusier never even saw the Carpenter Center in person.WIDENER, LAMONT AND PUSEY LIBRARIESThe lore surrounding Widener is familiar to many: namely, the bibliophile Titanic victim whose mother donated a boatload—pun intended—of money to the school, premised on the condition that Harvard instituted a swim test as a requirement for graduation.This rumor is partly true. Harry Elkins Widener ’07, along with his father, died on the Titanic. His mother donated a large...

Author: By Synne D. Chapman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: If These Halls Could Talk | 2/18/2009 | See Source »

...building when it was completed in 1963, only to accuse the contractor of building it upside down. Others insist that Corbusier never even saw the Carpenter Center in person.Widener, Lamont and Pusey LibrariesThe lore surrounding Widener is familiar to many: namely, the bibliophile Titanic victim whose mother donated a boatload—pun intended—of money to the school, premised on the condition that Harvard instituted a swim test as a requirement for graduation. This rumor is partly true. Harry Elkins Widener ’07, along with his father, died on the Titanic. His mother donated...

Author: By Synne D. Chapman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: What You Didn't Know About the Yard | 2/18/2009 | See Source »

...Barmak seeks to show the human side of tragedy. In Osama, about a young girl in Taliban-era Kabul who poses as a boy in order to provide for her widowed mother, he highlights the plight of women under that draconian regime. His awareness of the human side of history was honed early on. At age 5 he was transfixed by a showing of Lawrence of Arabia at his hometown cinema hall in Kabul. He haunted movie theaters after that, taping together remnants of filmstrips to make his own films, which he would then show to his friends in tiny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan's Great Film Hope | 2/17/2009 | See Source »

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