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...style that predominates in current high-art festival films (ones, by the way, that rarely get much exposure in U.S. movie houses) is minimalist. Based on the works of early masters like Carl-Theodor Dreyer and Robert Bresson, it follows certain rules, as restrictive as any Mennonite edicts: pare movie technique down to its essentials; show characters behaving, however mutely, rather than acting; make the viewer work for their epiphanies. This style has been responsible for many small, lugubrious films and -from directors who know how to make more or less -a few masterpieces. Silent Light is one of them...
...much-criticized Core.Several professors continued to express concern yesterday with some of the program’s more specific qualities. Calling the new program “too much of a good thing,” former dean of the College Harry R. Lewis suggested that his colleagues pare down the required number of courses from eight to six.He said that the program’s deficiencies were a result of “the chaos of the past few years.”“Because of leadership crises,” Lewis said...
Calling the new program “too much of a good thing,” former dean of the College Harry R. Lewis suggested that his colleagues pare down the required number of courses from eight...
...consumer universe. "Everyone is catering to the top of the pyramid," says the 69-year-old at his office in Bombay House, the Tata group's elegant Edwardian headquarters in India's business capital. "The challenge we've given to all our companies is to address a different market. Pare your margins. Create new markets...
...Lily Durwood and Mahon tied for the lead in digs with 10 apiece.After hanging with Yale early in the first game, matching them point for point until an 11-10 Bulldog lead, Harvard began slipping. Yale accelerated to a 28-21 lead, a margin that the Crimson managed to pare by only a single point before the Bulldogs closed out the game on a kill by freshman outside hitter Alexis Crusey.The second game opened far less auspiciously for Harvard, as Yale jumped out to a 6-0 lead, which the Crimson managed to narrow to 13-10, before the Bulldogs...