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...better films (and they are not many in comparison to those he has messed up) Altman has used his peculiar style - mumbled dialogue often overlapped, a restless camera zooming, panning, tracking - to obscure the fact that they have very little to say. The lives he recounts are hopelessly muddled and ruled by chance and coincidence, with their outcomes generally a nasty surprise both to the players and to us in the audience. The way he encourages (or at least permits) his actors to improvise makes him a beloved figure to them, and permits his more impressionable viewers to feel they...
...Burkle ’08 Since when was the guillotine considered funny? For a while in the 19th century, it seems. “It was the popular theme for jests; it was the best cure for headache, it infallibly prevented the hair from turning grey, it imparted a peculiar delicacy to the complexion, it was the National Razor which shaved close,” writes Charles Dickens in his 1859 novel, “A Tale of Two Cities.” Mary E. Birnbaum ’07 and Jess R. Burkle ’06 are laughing...
...even the briefest excerpts and paraphrases demonstrate, Saunders is a highly original writer, with a peculiar gift for presenting the familiar in new and bizarre combinations that force us to pay attention to what we might ordinarily take for granted...
...Princeton,” he said; she simply shrugged her shoulders. “Harvard,” I replied, and in a flash, her eyes lit up with excitement. “Harvard?! Amazing.” It is amazing—in a perverted and peculiar sense. We 6,600 students are only a tiny fraction of the hundreds of thousands of collegians around the world, and yet we (along with our professors, our campus, and our endowment) epitomize elite, higher education in the minds of millions. So when the local, national, or international media uncovers...
...imagery and customs of the sixteenth century, when it was written. This production seeks to catapult the play into the present. Daniel R. Pecci ’09, who plays Bolingbroke, says that he partially modeled his character on McEnroe whom he claims shares Bolingbroke’s peculiar sense of anger.“It has to be endearing and oddly understandable,” he explains. This choice is indicative of this production’s attention to contemporary objects and fascinations. “Our set is built from the objects and images you?...