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...dominant female villains, forays into violence and physical comedy, and the deployment of actors into elaborate, atmospheric sets that enhance the bleak spaces that separate them emotionally. Though some of his tropes can be grating—the alternations between loud yelling, electronica, and animalistic sexuality has grown somewhat predictable??we have all witnessed in Donahue’s work the genesis of a style, and the preliminary efforts of a professional talent of whom we will no doubt hear again...
Never a real innovator, Putin this time around employed electioneering tactics that were pretty predictable??just a little more blatant than in elections past. The ever-compliant press was a little more malleable, broadcasting an entire 29-minute speech Putin gave to campaign staffers. Local leaders were a little more enthusiastic about fixing the results, threatening punishment for not getting to the polls and offering prizes to increase voter turnout and get the 50 percent quorum required to make Putin’s victory official. Workers at polling places were a little more likely to forge a couple...
What does this intersection of being a racial minority and being female mean for those who live it? Prof. Kimberle Crenshaw of Columbia Law School writes, “The consequences of this multiple marginality are fairly predictable??there is simply silence of and about black women.” This deafening silence leads not only to a dearth of information on the experience of women of color as a whole, but also minimizes the unique identity of women of color as individuals...
Given these pedagogically bankrupt bits of filler that constituted the bulk of our time here, it actually seems fitting—even predictable??that most of us are at a loss for overarching take-home messages. Perhaps, in this way, Harvard is a fitting introduction to the real world, which (I’m told) plays like anything but a conventional screenplay. In last year’s Spike Jonze film, Adaptation, Nicolas Cage plays a writer who is all too aware of this. In trying to adapt Susan Orlean’s book The Orchard Thief into...
...Episode” makes all the clichéd jokes about TV dramas, and the Broadway version of The Karate Kid is of course a heartfelt (if at times off-key) rendition of street fighting with a musical twist. Still, the jokes work precisely because they are predictable??and the energy with which the actors pull them off is a delight to watch...