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...film, Uncle Frank, is a depressed, suicidal homosexual who also happens to be the self-declared number one Proust scholar in the U.S. At first I figured this was a completely random association; the writers could have just as easily picked Balzac or John Donne or some other semi-obscure, all-but-forgotten philoso-poet. But maybe these arbitrary snippets of Proust in current popular culture amount to something. In Search of Lost Time is six volumes long and rife with allusions and metaphors, so easy to apply Proust to just about anything. Wondering why that delicious cookie tastes...
...lighting. Among the most visible changes arising from the project is the construction of a landscaped island in Lampoon Plaza—the area formed by the intersection of Mt. Auburn Street, Bow Street, and Linden Street. The island will be just west of the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine. Church, Palmer, Winthrop, and parts of JFK Streets will also have improvements made. The streets will be resurfaced, lighting fixtures will be installed, and sidewalks will be widened. The project is supported by the Harvard Square...
...that anything as practical as making ends meet on fixed, reduced incomes is allowed to intrude on this fantasy. The seniors are all played by minor, aging actors of the semi-recent past (Dyan Cannon, Sally Kellerman, Brenda Vaccaro among them) and before anything like a plot gets rolling, the film has about it a not entirely attractive voyeuristic aspect. We don't really want to see the dreamboats of the past hull-down in the realties of aging. We know it must come to them - no matter how clever the cosmetic surgeons have been (or how bravely some...
...some cases, there's only so much one can do. I met Abisamra while witnessing a tragic, but increasingly common, scene. An extended family of Shi'ites from Tyre in the south was seated on a semi-circle of white plastic chairs. The men wore grim expressions. They had just been told that Hussein Zikehammede, 40, and his father, Hajj Zikehammede, 70, had been killed in an Israeli missile strike yesterday on their way south to fetch Hussein's wife and six children and bring them to safety. According to Hussein's cousin, Majid Hammadi, the two men were about...
...locked and loaded my M-16/ And I blew those little f___ers to eternity." Many defended "Hadji Girl" as gallows humor, but on the web there is no shortage of just plain gallows, either. A search for "Iraq" and "combat" at Ogrish.com or YouTube.com will field dozens of semi-pro snuff films of varying degrees of gore. Many are set to music - power ballads, speed metal, and in one case, an ironic lounge-act crooner...