Word: particularity
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That was then. On March 9, a movie about the Battle of Thermopylae, called 300, will hit theaters. It was made by a young director, stars nobody in particular, and it looks like nothing you've ever seen. Very little in 300 is real except the actors. Sets, locations, armies, blood--they're all computer generated. It's beautiful, and it might well be the future of filmmaking. But should...
...first original play, “Fall,” in which he will also play its leading role. Conceived in the early months of last semester, “Fall” takes its name from Cutmore-Scott’s first term at Harvard. In particular, the comedic play centers on his experience as a displaced Londoner in an American university, and emphasizes the unique aspects of Harvard life that students often think of as normal, such as the frenzied pace of life or the compulsion for underage binge drinking. “It would be inaccurate...
...case-by-case basis, not only because people mature at different ages but also because there is simply no definitive law that says that a child must be a certain age before he or she can encounter the word “scrotum.” Instead, in this particular case, the response demonstrates a knee-jerk reaction to one taboo word, rather than appropriate consideration of the context in which it appears...
...verbal and physical abuse by fathers and husbands, and so on.Yet the histories of “head-scarf girls” of the Institute are different: these are comparatively privileged girls whose parents support their pursuit of college education. These girls have given the head scarf a particular semiotic significance: it is for them a “symbol of ‘political Islam,’” and they will drop out of school and commit suicide before they will remove it.In our post-9/11 world, there’s a rhetorical tendency...
...nowhere to be found, and he says he wanted it that way. “I’ve tried hard to get back into the background and just be the guy that writes books,” Eggers said in an interview. “This book in particular, I was really trying not to have one word, or one tiny inkling of my own style or my own personality, and so I gave it up completely to Valentino.” Any lingering worries that Eggers may have replaced Deng’s voice with...