Word: prize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...films like Amistad, slavery is used as a visual bulldozer, meant to overwhelm viewers through its shocking brutality and painful inhumanity. In Beloved, the highly-anticipated adaptation of Toni Morrison's lauded Pulitzer Prize winning novel, slavery is explored in a much subtler, almost metaphorical fashion. It is an exercise in psychology, exploring the mind of Morrison's steel-willed protagonist Sethe (Oprah Winfrey), a former slave who now lives as a free woman in Ohio in the 1870s. Sethe is a strong woman of fierce determination but she is haunted, both literally and figuratively, by the pain and horror...
Susan C. Faludi '81, a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award and a former Crimson managing editor, is also listed among frequent contributing writers to the magazine...
Plastic tape and duct tape festooned Sanders Theatre last night for "The Eighth, First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony," as the event was billed...
...ceremony, a parody of the Nobel Prize presentation, was significantly less decorous than the real thing. Overseen by the "King and Queen of Swedish Meatballs," the ceremony's theme was duct tape...
...center of a barn devoted entirely to prize-winning vegetables, New England's largest pumpkin is displayed in a glass-enclosed, air-conditioned case. Weighing in at over 920 pounds, the monstrous vegetable looms over astounded observers. "Golly" cries one man in overalls. The crowd murmurs its agreement. Golly...