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...ease yourself into the Thanksgiving spirit, but it’ll get your brain working again after the previous day’s bacchanalian festivities.The Brattle ends its celebration of Janus Films with a bang, pairing the Kurosawa crime drama “High and Low” with Roman Polanski’s debut feature “Knife in the Water,” on Monday, Nov. 20 and Tuesday, Nov. 21, respectively.If you have to see one of the remaining pictures at the Brattle, see “High and Low.” It?...
...cantatas are based on modified and dramatized updates of old tales of Greek and Roman mythology. The stories of Orpheus, Hercules, Cupid and Apollo serve as the basis for the Society’s original theatrical component...
Over the past five years, Roman Catholic communities around the country have experienced a curious phenomenon: more women, most in their 20s and 30s, are trying on that veil. Convents in Nashville, Tenn.; Ann Arbor, Mich.; and New York City all admitted at least 15 entrants over the past year and fielded hundreds of inquiries. One convent is hurriedly raising funds for a new building to house the inflow, and at another a rush of new blood has lowered the median age of its 225 sisters to 36. Catholic centers at universities, including Illinois and Texas A&M, report growing...
There is nothing scary or suspenseful about the newest wave of horror films. Torture and barbarity are merely cheap shock. If you want a truly scary film, check out Roman Polanski's Repulsion or Rosemary's Baby. Polanski knows it's not gore that scares an audience but a steadily growing sense of overwhelming apprehension and dread...
Furthermore, Bose questions the validity of the Roman style of sovereignty, comparing it to the more loosely organized South Asian conception of Empire...