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According to director Christopher Nolan's new movie, a great magic trick consists of three parts: "The Pledge," in which the illusionist produces a common object (or ordinary person) and promises to do something wondrous with it; "The Turn," in which he subjects this object to an astounding transformation; and, finally "The Prestige," in which perhaps a life, but certainly the illusionist's always tenuous hold on his audience, is held in thrilling and suspenseful balance. This narrative structure analogizes rather neatly to the customary three-act movie plot and it is both clever and apt of Nolan...
...administrators, predictably, seem terrified to say. And I, personally, lack both knowledge and experience to decide. Back in the spring, Assistant Dean of the College Stephanie H. Kenen hit the nail on the head: The review was “trying to come to something nobody would strongly object to as opposed to something everybody would be excited about.” The lack of a strong decision-maker killed any inspiring ideas in each proposal. Later, when administrators were attempting to implement the non-plan, the application of the broader portal courses was pathetic at best. So far, only...
...small republic’s national guard. That, and shoes. Many, many glorious shoes (which a discerning eye and a taste for Spanish decadence will surely recognize as the immortal Manolo Blahnik’s own handiwork). All this is to say that the film, as an aesthetic object created for pop-culture consumption, is nothing short of gorgeous. But at the same time, it feels about as fleeting as the 80s glam-rock symphony that pervades it—delightful in its transience, but somehow ultimately hollow. It’s not that the cast can really be blamed...
...Many Happy Returns, Twelfth Imam! The Mahdi, an imam who happens to be Ahmadinejad's favorite, has become the object of frenzied and government-nurtured worship
...housing dilemma. Earlier this year, Caracas officials began seizing apartments considered "idle" to give shelter to those who had none. They moved 51 firefighters who needed housing into one apartment building in the upper-middle class neighborhood of El Rosal. Some residents of the building said they didn't object to their new neighbors, noting that the local government paid a fair price for the units and that people needed help allaying the financial shock of skyrocketing apartment prices...