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...seen, but there is an admirable attempt to shake up the formula, most especially with Hitch’s quasi-pimp profession. This attempt at teaching an old dog new tricks fails when the narrative quickly falls into predictable patterns. It is only the leads’ pure likeability that redeems the narrative’s damned conventionality...

Author: By Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hitch Review | 2/11/2005 | See Source »

...particular was a clip of a man in an ambiguous animal costume shouting to visitors at the 2005 presidential inauguration---they were fresh and a clear break from the mainstream. Though the scattered selection eschewed the finesse of commercial filmmaking, the festival nevertheless stood steadfastly by the pure punk spirit of Beibin’s vision...

Author: By Eve Lebwohl, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Medium Obscures Message at Lost Film Festival | 2/11/2005 | See Source »

Sure, Warner’s theory is pure demagoguery at its worst and ends up being a high-minded excuse for slutty behavior, but why do obnoxious couples have to parade around their sickening bliss in front of the romantically impoverished masses of the singles population? Am I bitter? Of course not. I just hate...

Author: By Clint J. Froehlich, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Valentine's Day Coping: Gay Mockery of Straight Romances | 2/11/2005 | See Source »

...certainly can too! Now go buy the soundtrack!” How then does a singleton, attempting self-actualization and the attainment of some level of personal integrity, find peace amidst this endless parade of monotony in the mainstream cinema, that most domineering and permeable of cultural discourses? Pure, unadulterated cynicism and the snobby dissection of such barfy films as Pretty Woman and 10 Things I Hate About You is the only path one can take. Behold—a sample reading to guide your viewing of whatever date film you choose, complete with the proper atmosphere in which...

Author: By Clint J. Froehlich, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Valentine's Day Coping: Gay Mockery of Straight Romances | 2/11/2005 | See Source »

...That is not to pretend that the U.S. undertook Iraq for reasons of pure humanitarianism-as America undertook the rescue of other Muslim peoples (with varying success) in Somalia, Bosnia and Kosovo. We would never have invaded Iraq to depose Saddam without 9/11. After 9/11, we finally understood that helping build decent, representative, tolerant societies in the Middle East is ultimately the only way to prevent endless generations of young Arab men from finding fulfillment by crashing airplanes into buildings filled with infidels. Europe has a similar interest, having suffered, with the train bombings in Madrid, the kind of fanatic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why It Deserves the Hype | 2/7/2005 | See Source »

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