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...birdie tells us two female first-years found themselves in the middle of a Bret Easton Ellis novel at 7 Story Street last weekend. The literary lionesses were getting freaky on the dance floor when Signet President Raja G. Haddad ’05 decided to get in on the action like Humbert Humbert at an Aaron Carter concert. Haddad’s over-enthusiastic pelvic thrusts and occasional biting prompted onlookers to wince. Come on Raja: don’t you know the pen is mightier than the, uh, sword...
...Helen Fielding’s comic creation. Admittedly, the raw material was less-than-stellar: putting aside the side-splitting botched interview with Colin Firth which for obvious reasons could not be included in the movie (having Colin Firth play Colin Firth would be far too Spike Jonze), the novel Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason lacks the consistent hilarity and striking originality of its predecessor, Bridget Jones’ Diary...
Bloom published his first work—Shelley’s Mythmaking—in 1959 and has continued to write and think seriously about literature ever since. His 1973 work The Anxiety of Influence earned him international acclaim for its novel contention that authors are constantly aware of their predecessors’ achievements and “misread” them in order to achieve originality. “Influence,” Bloom wrote, “is influenza—an astral disease...
...redemption of a long-estranged parent is hardly a novel plot in contemporary cinema; it has congealed to the point where every hug, tear and clumsy montage seem carefully choreographed. Refreshingly, Around the Bend, reveals an organic push and pull that approaches the mostly shapeless narrative of real relationships that is only reinforced by the subtle performances of screen legends Christopher Walken and Sir Michael Caine...
...stumbled upon such a fascinating piece almost by accident, and that it had never attracted scholarly attention before. He spoke of how liberating it was not to be encumbered by previous literature on the topic. Less of his energy was spent shattering old myths, and more on synthesizing novel pieces of information and discovering through a sharpened focus “relations, connections, affinities within a culture that it may not even...