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...mails also say that she “is writing a book detailing my experiences as your instructor, which will ‘name names?? so to speak. I have all of your evaluations and these will be reproduced in the book.” For Venkatesan to point fingers at individuals using supposedly confidential student feedback is not only morally reprehensible, it also hurts her own cause by creating the perception that she is simply capitalizing on her fifteen minutes of fame...
...final song, “Are You Still Holding My Hand,” recalls her dying words to Jamie, and it’s completely heartbreaking. One line in particular–“Have you had many lovers / I’ve never heard their names??–should be impossible to pull off; instead, it is the show’s most powerful moment...
...Arkadin” intertwines narrative aspects of “Citizen Kane” and “The Third Man” to probe Cold War institutional corruption. A dying man gives a petty criminal named Van Stratten (Robert Arden) two names??Gregory Arkadin and Sophie—which he tries to use to blackmail Arkadin (played by writer/director Orson Welles), one of the world’s richest and sketchiest men. The other name, it is later revealed, is that of Arkadin’s collaborator from his former days as an international criminal...
With its hypertrophied “realistic” tics—for instance, naming real places and real brand-names??Saunders’ vision of America is not so much unreal as hyper-real: rather like a Chuck Close painting, it is composed of parts that have a tendency to roil within themselves, or to fly off toward an entropy deforming the very figure whose representation they simultaneously create...
Remember five years ago and that heady rush of distortion of myriad garage bands with monosyllabic names??each the “Next Big Thing” according to NME—flooding the music scene? Remember how the Libertines, fronted by Pete Doherty, set themselves apart from the Strokes and the Vines and the Hives with an exquisite sense of rock history, harmonic sophistication, and fantastically nihilistic lyrics? Remember how both the Libertines’ albums—first “Up the Bracket” and then their eponymous “The Libertines?...