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...thing you must do before graduation: Primal scream...

Author: By Ishani Ganguli and Maria S. Pedroza, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: The Blind Leading the Blind | 2/13/2003 | See Source »

...these cases produce for all participants,” he wrote in an e-mail. “In the end, confronting those emotions, I felt that the legal system is not equipped to provide assaugement or a sense of world restored in the case of a crime as primal and horrifying as murder; to the extent that we expect that from capital punishment it fails...

Author: By Julia E. Twarog, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Alum's New Novel Takes on Death Penalty | 2/7/2003 | See Source »

...body language of Wendy, my interviewer, indicated she didn’t quite share my enthusiasm for frozen treats. The final test to assess my coolness quotient was to talk about a college event and pick a video to go along with it. I talked about good old primal scream and chose Blink 182’s “What’s My Age Again?” video, where everyone runs around sans clothes. Wendy appeared amused, but I think she might have cringed at the thought of Harvard kids running around wearing nothing but our Coke...

Author: By Nikki Usher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Real World of MTV | 2/6/2003 | See Source »

...fear and rage that many other rock musicians only pretend to possess. As both a head-banging rocker and the beseeching man-child who wrote, "See me, feel me/Touch me, heal me"--for Tommy, about a boy who has been molested--was Townshend making a lifelong reply to some primal outrage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Caught Up In the Web | 1/27/2003 | See Source »

...since this director is Mel Gibson (who got his Oscar for Braveheart), the tone isn't always pious. Gibson loves to goof. Playing practical jokes is a way of keeping the crew loose, asserting the primal jester inside the armor of a star's machismo. So to wrap up the temple take, he has a quiet word with Morgenstern and steps back to leave the actress alone--staring dolefully into the camera with a bright-red clown nose he has stuck on her face. Cut. Print. Amen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Passion of Mel Gibson | 1/27/2003 | See Source »

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