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Even before the recent pet-food scare, supermarkets had to be careful about where to put kitty litter, since its use carries a definite ick factor. Attractive, bright packaging may help, but positioning in the pet section remains a challenge...
...That's the urgent odor that this year attached itself to The Orphanage, a Spanish thriller written by Sergio G. Sanchez, directed by first-timer Juan Antonio Bayona and shown in the little-attended Critics' Week section. The movie does have a pedigree: it was executive-produced by Guillermo Del Toro, the Mexican filmmaker whose Pan's Labyrinth had its world premiere at last year's festival before becoming a surprise hit and an Oscar-winner in the States. The Orphanage has the same vital vibe: the sense that all crafts of filmmaking are bent to leading us into another...
There isn’t even an admirable end to the whole enterprise. Instead of spending hours before a glowing Apple in an attempt to outshine his section on the following day, a student can now indulge his narcissism with the brutal military conquest of his peers. The former case is irritating, but at least it earned some eager tyke a meticulous knowledge of Kant. And whatever happened to duels? This lust for social dominance could well eradicate itself if we only returned to the days of pistols at dawn...
...Arts section had a Q&A with a news editor who was playing Juliet that weekend in a production of “Romeo and Juliet.” The next day, the editorial page praised a Web site designed by an editorial editor, who also happened to have won the editorial page’s endorsement last year in an unsuccessful bid to be Undergraduate Council president...
Instead, Hernandez said, the paper carefully makes sure that individual reporters and editors are not covering organizations and events they’re involved in. Some departments have particularly stringent policies—the Arts section won’t allow anyone who has even tried out for a show in the past year to review theater. Such a policy is sensible and perhaps adequate when Crimson editors only have loose connections with other student groups...