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Savvy viewers think they can spot a Sundance film a mall away: the liberal viewpoint, the slow pulse, the precise and subdued acting. No question that, in the 25 years since Robert Redford founded his film institute in Utah, the "Sundance film" has become its own genre. This selection of 10 films spawned at the institute or launched at its festival provides a corrective of sorts, showing that the range is wide and imposing. You can still savor the romantic desperation of sex, lies, and videotape, the working-class wit of Clerks, the community of self-aware losers in American...
...Friday’s cheddar and bacon potato skins. Those snacks make life studying orgo in Cabot library so much more bearable. Yum, yum. Good snacks. Yep. Oh right, there aren’t any vending machines in the Science Center.Three: Exorcise the 802.11b demons. Prominent Philadelphia architect Robert Venturi called Sever Hall his “favorite building in America.” It shows “the validity of architecture as generic shelter rather than abstract-expressive sculpture,” Venturi wrote. To students inside Sever, however, it shows the pitfalls of delaying the outfit...
...minutes from the Sept. 29 meeting invoke Robert Frost to illustrate the tension between Summers and the Faculty that has characterized much of the president’s tenure...
...time...I’m keeping my options open.” Following the celebration, councillors considered a plan to purchase the Mount Auburn post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) and expand it into a youth and community center. In a letter to the Council, City Manager Robert W. Healy estimated that the VFW post, at 688 Huron Ave. just south of Fresh Pond, would cost nearly $3 million to purchase. Councillors unanimously approved the proposal, which means that renovations to the building will begin in January. Those renovations will displace three dance groups, which currently rent...
...University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth history professors said that a student at the university was visited by agents of the Department of Homeland Security after he requested a copy of Chinese communist leader Mao Tse-Tung’s Little Red Book through an interlibrary loan. Robert E. Pontbriand, a professor of history at UMass-Dartmouth, said that the student was a member of his course on fascism and totalitarianism. About two months ago, the student used an interlibrary loan to obtain the authoritative version of the Little Red Book for a research paper on Mao, Pontbriand said. The student...