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Anyone who’s taking the “Art of Film” core will immediately recognize the opening homage in Curtis Hanson’s “In Her Shoes,” as the camera cuts back and forth between parallel scenes of two mobile pairs of shoes cleverly establishing the personalities of their owners. It’s an allusion to the preface of Hitchcock’s “Strangers on a Train” (and no accident either—Hanson’s 1990 film “Bad Influence?...
While some students said they are enthusiastic about the new commission, which will parallel the work of the Senior Class Committee and the First-Year Social Committee, others said they are more skeptical...
...growing support for same-sex marriage within the Legislature reflects a parallel trend among the state’s public. In 2003, barely 44 percent of Massachusetts residents supported same-sex marriage. Today, that number has risen to 56 percent, and the number of residents who actively oppose same-sex marriage has fallen to below 40 percent. Across the state, people are realizing that life after same-sex marriage has not differed at all from life before same-sex marriage. Far from being a radical innovation of left-wing activist judges, as Romney and his allies maintain, same-sex marriage...
...Cosby question--he's heard it before. Chris Rock knows his history well enough to know the parallel: in 1984 a black comic turned his stand-up act into a fresh-voiced family comedy that revived the sitcom genre when, like now, pundits were reading it the last rites. But suggest that UPN's Everybody Hates Chris, which Rock created and narrates, could be today's Great Black Hope, and the comic waxes unphilosophical. "If it's good, it'll work. If not, it won't work." Shrug. Silence. Move...
Meanwhile, in the strange parallel universe of Washington press conferences, federal officials regularly congratulated one another. "I think it is a source of tremendous pride to me to work with people who have pulled off this really exceptional response," Chertoff said Thursday. In an interview with National Public Radio, he was pressed six times about the misery of the 25,000 refugees at the Convention Center. Chertoff said he had not heard about any problems...