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...follows a reformed gambler’s trip to his own personal “hell” as he is led on his first investigation of insurance fraud. However, though the performances are uniformly strong, only viewers who are already deeply familiar with Dante’s poem will be able to understand how the film functions as an adaptation, which is unfortunately a critical element in appreciating the movie as a whole...

Author: By Lauren B. Paul, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: St. John of Las Vegas | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

...Saint John of Las Vegas” is a classic case of great characters thrown into a second-rate plot. For amusing but plotless performances, see the film. But for a story that actually makes sense, stick with the poem...

Author: By Lauren B. Paul, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: St. John of Las Vegas | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

...Korean War, Ko was forced to cart away corpses. After, he became a Buddhist monk and wandered over the vales and hills of South Korea, a "nation of unending waves!" For 10 years he lived off alms, often sleeping in graveyards and caves. He also published his first poems, which he has since likened to "tufts of grass among the ruins" of the fratricidal war - a typically earthy metaphor for a poet derided by his detractors as artless and quaintly rustic. The landscapes in his poems are undeniably folksy. Villagers get drunk on bootleg makgeolli - the milky, fizzy rice wine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sense of Place: The Korean Peninsula | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

...original dance and musical compositions by Harvard students. Performances included a show by the Drummers of the Pan-African Dance and Music Ensemble, a dance by the Caribbean Club Dance Troupe to the beat of Haitian-born singer Wyclef Jean, and a rendition of Maya Angelou’s poem “Still I Rise” from the Kuumba Singers of Harvard College...

Author: By Meredith C. Baker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Haiti Benefit Concert Raises $37,000 | 2/16/2010 | See Source »

...Love poem: If they’re an OEB concentrator, they probably didn’t write it. If they’re an English concentrator, they probably wrote it last year for a class...

Author: By Kathryn C. Reed, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Valentine’s Day Decoded | 2/11/2010 | See Source »

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