Word: salients
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...book was better.” And biographical films seem especially prone to this disparity. A successful biographical film must take advantage of at least one of several saving graces: superb acting, historical interest, surpassing cinematographic treatment or a truly remarkable real-life epic. The following are salient examples of biographical films that have done this; it seems dubious that Riding in Cars will live up to their legacies...
...coalition for peace. The man had long black hair, tied back into a pony-tail, and a poorly trimmed moustache. The woman had her head shaved to ear level topped by a shock of short, bleached-blond hair. They looked like the kind of pinko-liberal bogey-men who Salient editors see in their nightmares. They spoke immediately about the United States’ legacy of propping up murderous Middle Eastern dictators and violating human rights around the world. When asked what peaceful alternative to war they would suggest, one offered that America should immediately decrease the cost of AIDS...
...Levit's untitled depictions of 1940s urban New York has a small child-probably a baby boomer-at the epicenter; her mother is tucked into the periphery and a car speeds towards the child, who runs to her mother. The salient objects of the photograph are machines, cars, buildings, concrete, asphalt, and, in increasing numbers, people. The space presents itself ominously and uninvitingly. The child seems afraid, uncomfortable, not at home. In such a way, Levit appears to be depicting a sort of psychological dysphoria in terms of the physical space her subjects occupy...
...David B. Orr ’01 declared in the pages of The Salient last semester, members of the gay community say they are “past” the morality debate. This means many conflicted evangelical gays hear only the “homosexuality is sinful” line offered, however sweetly, by the Harvard Christian community...
Professor of Yiddish Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature Ruth R. Wisse is co-faculty advisor of the Harvard Salient and is author of the book, If I Am Not for Myself: The Liberal Betrayal of the Jews...