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...with ketchup by fourth-graders attending birthday parties across the nation. Your face will be prominently featured next to "Demi Moore: Chess Club (Vice-President)." Dreams do come true. Trouble is, since a bachelor's degree is no prerequisite for stardom, they'll probably be using your high school mug shot instead--making your last-ditch effort to join Model U.N. a bit useless...
Kieslowski and his gifted screenwriting colleague, Krzysztof Piesiewicz, knew that drama begins with the human face; it is a sponge for the viewer's emotional complicity. So the camera takes closeup mug shots of faces in love or anxiety. Or it crouches furtively, behind a tree, in a closet like a fretful nephew or an avid voyeur. It watches ordinary people (including some of the most beautiful actresses in Europe) tangling with moral demons, holding on to what they were taught to believe or--this being real life in Poland just after martial law--what they have learned to settle...
...observe the foraging patterns and social structures of a particularly fascinating primate species: humans. Politicians are interesting, too, but I think I'll save that for another postcard. And unlike my friend in East Africa, I've been able to do most of my fieldwork over a steaming mug of latte...
Dara Horn '99 is working as a reporter-researcher at Time magazine. She wrote this piece by the light of a halogen lamp, while drinking liquefied bullion cubes from a free mug...
Buzzed from java, but hate the bland taste of decaf? One day a full-flavored brew minus the caffeine could fill your mug. Scientists have figured out how to grow coffee plants that appear to lack the "caffeine gene." The leaves have negligible caffeine. Researchers will know about the beans when the plants mature in about two years...