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But for directors who work in foreign languages, America has scant appreciation. Even with spillover grosses from the 1995 Italian hit Il Postino, last year's foreign-language earnings amounted to less than 1% of the total U.S. box office. This is down from 4% to 5% in the 1960s...
is a social studies concentrator in Winthrop House. His column, “Sardonic Verses,” will attempt social critique by arguing the unexpected. Expect an irreverent outsider’s perspective on the daily news, campus issues, and the world in general on alternate Fridays.
“Bucolic Bacchanalia” (Postcard, July 1) by Matthew A. Busch. Aside from his sardonic tone to describe our town—one would think that a writer for such a publication would think of something more witty than the easy target “Dixfield?...
“I had every intention to explore what it means to go to a mosque…[but] there’s so many things that get in the way of [good intentions], like life—and hormones.” Or so contends the sardonic, reluctant...
Combining the eerily insightful voice-overs in the vein of 1999’s head-spinning “Fight Club” and the sardonic conversations of “Office Space,” “waydowntown” caricaturizes the monotony of the nine-to-five...