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...reason for the vanishing movie female is that the genres in which women used to be equal or dominant--the romantic melodrama and comedy--fell out of favor when the core audience changed from families to teen boys. The guy-kids prefer starker fare: action movies (one man against the system), science fantasy (techies save the solar system) and horror films (where young women are the naked and the dead, usually in that order). What didn't change was Hollywood's view of the sexes: that men are defined by their exploits, women by their emotions. In a movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big Picture: Why Can't a Woman ... Be a Man? | 4/5/2007 | See Source »

...responsibly." He could even hold people responsible for their good or evil, since that was both a pragmatic and sensible approach to life, while still believing intellectually that everyone's actions were predetermined. "I know that philosophically a murderer is not responsible for his crime," he said, "but I prefer not to take tea with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Einstein & Faith | 4/5/2007 | See Source »

Avner May ’09, whose parents did not attend Harvard, said in a phone interview that he is not bothered by legacy admissions in most cases. However, he said that if two students had similarly low test scores, he would prefer to see a minority student gain admission rather than a legacy...

Author: By Aditi Balakrishna, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Low-SAT Legacies Receive Lower GPAs | 4/5/2007 | See Source »

Ravishankara added that he would prefer that student organizational efforts would be directed towards more frequent, smaller concerts, rather than events that involve “standing hundreds of feet away from an artist that we used to listen to years ago who we probably paid way too much money...

Author: By Christian B. Flow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Third Eye Blind To Headline Yardfest | 4/5/2007 | See Source »

...know many people that have died of AIDS, so I think it is important to educate people about this issue in a language that they understand." Still, not everybody shares Richard's appetite for movies with an educational message. Says Peter Habimana, 21, a bicycle taxi driver, "I prefer Jackie Chan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movie Night at a Massacre Site | 4/4/2007 | See Source »

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