Word: roberts
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...That's pretty feeble for the week's only new action film, whose low-wattage cast - Matt Dillon, Laurence Fishburne, Jean Reno - assured that Armored would land in the "DVD, if at all" section of moviegoers' priorities. Barely making the top 10, with a $4 million take, was the Robert De Niro drama Everybody's Fine, a kind of weepie-genre Four Christmases, in which a father pays separate surprise visits to his quartet of grown children. When this movie called on its potential audience, nobody answered...
Dancers from Brown will present original student choreography as well as pieces from Robert Battle’s “Rush Hour.” Yale’s performance will feature an original, contemporary West African piece by Lacina Coulibaly. “I’m as interested as anybody to find out about their programs and to see them dancing,” says Elizabeth Bergmann, the Dance Center director who helped to organize the event and will take part in a panel discussion...
...profession, has taught such English department staples as “Modern American Poetry” and “Major British Writers II” since arriving at the university in 2007. But he is also a longtime student of science fiction. Once a childhood reader of Robert Silverberg, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Isaac Asimov, he now writes course syllabi and critical articles on the genre...
...Burt, science fiction, as a highly self-conscious genre, lends itself to this sort of analysis. But being cognizant of how a text expects to be read, he says, is as important for comprehending poetry as it is for understanding science fiction. For Burt, the experience of reading Robert Heinlein and Octavia Butler is similar to going line-by-line through the poetry of John Ashbery or Jorie Graham. Reading science fiction helps students grasp other literature as much as it encourages them to ponder space ships, telekinesis, and sentient robots...
...second thought, it’s probably best that “Twilight” sticks with its portrayal of perfect vampire dreamboat Edward Cullen. Too much moral complexity might be deadly for Robert Pattinson’s wooden acting skills...