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...this seemingly inexorable decline is not inevitable. Harvard Square, in Cambridge zoning law, is contained in the “Harvard Square Overlay District,” whose special rules already restrict the types and heights of buildings in its bounds. Because the Square is part of this special zone, the City of Cambridge can also restrict—either by storefront feet or square footage—the kinds of businesses that occupy the Square. Cambridge could choose, if it wanted, to limit the number of banks that we look at every...
...films have been political at their core. Many have had political views and used the story to promote their views. Others have attempted to present a political issue in all of its complexity without passing judgment on the subject matter (granted, these films are much rarer). Still other films overlay a political context on top of the story...
...Inspired by the success of Japanese horror, other moviemakers around Asia have also embraced the genre. Most of the resulting films are ghost tales that overlay rustic superstitions onto a canvas of urban, middle-class life. They're populated by loners (like a suicidal psychic girl in Korea's The Uninvited), broken families (a traumatized single mother and her daughter in Nakata's Dark Water)?and the disheveled, raven-haired girl ghosts that have come to symbolize Asian horror. Settings are as alienating as the characters are alienated: cramped, paranoid visuals draw out the spooky possibilities of creaky old buildings...
...movies featuring Marvel characters have been clever, innovative and satisfying to date. Blade II succeeds in continuing the tradition of matching mutant-related subject matter with a recombinant-genre soundtrack. The album delivers an impressive list of strange bedfellows: Hip-hop heavyweights including Eve, Cypress Hill and the Roots overlay samples from Fatboy Slim, Moby, Groove Armada and others. The result is bound to entice and entertain both curious and skeptical listeners...
Another major change will occur on May 2, when four new overlay area codes-857, 339, 351 and 774-will be given...