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...background. Their own horror is not melodramatic, but written in the confusion and shock across their faces. The killing scenes are arranged similarly to those in “Jaws”: random characters are introduced, impending doom is certain, and goosebumps shoot down the back of your neck and arms. Instead of a cello increasing in bow strokes to mark the striking moment though, Fincher’s strategy is to calm viewers with humor and the character’s own confusion, before shocking them with a gruesome death. Gyllenhaal has wonderful on-screen chemistry with co-stars...

Author: By Andrew Nunnelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Zodiac | 3/1/2007 | See Source »

...that any car designer would call aerodynamic. Here's a phallic skyscraper, never built, that bends like a cattail in the wind. And here's the most implacably futuristic model of the bunch, a proposal for a prefabricated house that would rise out of the ground on a long neck, continue for a distance underground and send up a kind of tail at its rear. If it calls to mind all kinds of things, and it does, one of them is a brontosaurus from outer space. But how often do you see a house that reminds you in a single...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thinking Way Out of the Box | 2/27/2007 | See Source »

...fire, ignited by a candle, swept through an off-campus apartment building early Saturday morning. A third student remains in critical condition.After battling the blaze, firefighters found two people in apartment 621, later identified to be BU undergraduates Rhiannon L. McCuish of Mashpee, Mass., and Stephen Adelipour of Great Neck, N.Y., dead at the scene. Both were 21.Adelipour resided in the apartment, and McCuish was visiting. Steven B. Boursiquot, 22, of Dix Hills, N.Y., was found in the apartment alive and transported to Mass. General Hospital, where he remains in critical condition, according to Steve MacDonald, a spokesman...

Author: By Jamison A. Hill, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 2 Die in BU Fire, Candles Blamed | 2/27/2007 | See Source »

...Asked no fewer than four different ways to illuminate how he feels, including picking a note to sing that would describe his mood, Best Actor winner Forest Whitaker says, "I could feel the breath on my neck, the tingling in my body." Perhaps that was fellow nominee Peter O'Toole's unsuccessful voodoo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Oscars: Backstage Diary | 2/26/2007 | See Source »

...past, people might write about these figures as if the only relevant things in their lives was what happened from the neck up. Their ambitions, their desires, their insecurities weren’t really appropriate to write about when it came to Harvard professors. Journalism about Harvard was really about the life of the mind,” Bradley said...

Author: By Samuel P. Jacobs, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lights on at 'Shots in the Dark' | 2/26/2007 | See Source »

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