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...poem is about the old movie "Titanic," most of it describing a family watching the movie, laughing at the film's melodrama. Then the poem ends with the narrator sensing a leak in the house, a crack that "is slowly widening to claim each of us in random order, and we start to rock in one another's arms...
Obsessed with stripping away levels of reality through poetic form and controlled language, Hollander looks at art from as many directions as possible in order to get at the truth. In the last part of Figurehead, Hollander moves into evocative poems describing particular works of art (Edward Hopper's "Sun in an Empty Room" and Charles Sheeler's "The Artist Looks at Nature" are two paintings Hollander interprets poetically), effectively enfolding a work of visual art within his own poetic representation and creating Figurehead's most visceral and visually evocative poems...
During many of the activities, popular culture and its advertising engine ultimately emerged as the villainous culprits of the night. Striking against the Gap, L'Oreal, Gillete and other companies that play to female image insecurities in order to sell products, students met on Monday to create anti-advertising murals. Over 20 women defaced the super-thin, scantily clad models on the covers of Glamour and Cosmo, devising their own sardonic captions, such as "from the files of the incredible shrinking woman...
...Premise An update of Robert Wise's 1963 classic, The Haunting of Hill House, based on the novel of the same title by Shirley Jackson. A professor brings three people to the frightening and neurotic Hill House in order to conduct a psychological experiment. But apparently, Hill House has its own psychological problems...
...Premise Scientists onboard a floating research facility off the coast of California experiment with mako sharks in order to find a cure for AIDS and other diseases. The experiments take a horrifying turn for the worse when the newly altered sharks turn on the inhabitants of the laboratory and endanger the lives...