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Phoebe Kosman ’05, a history and literature concentrator in Winthrop House, knows the risqué final verse of “Sweet Betsy From Pike.” She looks forward to exploring other cultural phenomena in her column, which will now appear on alternate Wednesdays...
...Department counterterrorism expert. "They have just enough training to be dangerous to themselves and others." And there is the historic danger that CIA paramilitary operations, cloaked in layers of secrecy, can become rogues. "Everybody has seen this movie before where secret wars have developed into public disasters," warns John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org a defense and intelligence think tank. "We're going to wind up doing things that, when the American people hear of them, they will repudiate...
...drove along the Mass Pike, many questions filled my mind. What was I to think about men who had suffered life-threatening accidents that had left their bodies paralyzed, now waiting to catch deer in the crosshairs and blast them out of life altogether? Was it a way for the hunters to find meaning and assert their power, by going out into the woods to harvest meat for their families? Or was it just men being barbaric and wanting to kill things? Was the violence and the physicality of the shot—the roar, the recoil of the stock...
...that you must stick with them, but if you don't, you may be doing the film--and the genre--a disservice." So he gives us the staples: action, exotic settings, a good-vs.-evil showdown and Bond Girls (Berry plus pale, slinky British newcomer Rosamund Pike). Enlivening these elements are blasts from the past in honor of the franchise's 40th anniversary--nods to Bond history, from Berry's sexy play on Andress to a Union Jack parachute to cameos by memorable gadgets (Thunderball's jet pack, Octopussy's Crocodile minisubmarine). Audiences won't doubt for a moment that...
...says he's trying to deliver a 21st century update of that. "Filthy and snappy!" he says to Brosnan and Berry as they film the scene in which Bond and Jinx meet after her swim. He wants more lust and leer in this encounter--and the whole film. Rosamund Pike, who plays MI6 agent Miranda Frost, jokes that "Lee wants to make this an X-rated Bond film." In truth, he just wants a "traditional" Bond. After Dr. No's release in 1962, the Vatican condemned the film's amorality, and in 1965, TIME disdained the popularity...