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...Mickey One”) to the obscure (“The Highest,” a short featured in the 1972 Olympics) to a live television drama (“The Tears of My Sister”). After the screenings, Penn spoke to the audience about both the serious and the humorous, discussing filmic violence and politics while sharing anecdotes about his experiences working with the likes of Marlon Brando and Gene Hackman. When first released, Penn’s films were groundbreaking for their graphic representations of violence and social tensions that had been previously absent in movies, which...

Author: By Denise J. Xu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Director Penn Screens Films at HFA | 2/7/2008 | See Source »

...culture in general—and the ones shown in the exhibit serve much the same purpose.At first glance, Ducharme’s photographs are strikingly bold, reminiscent of finely detailed portraits. The magnification of the dolls’ faces to ten times their original size, combined with a serious enhancement of color manipulated through the use of Photoshop, creates a larger-than-life appeal that resonates with the spirituality said to be embodied within the dolls. Ducharme says he chose to focus primarily on the katsinas’ masks, or faces, because the Hopi themselves concentrated their efforts largely...

Author: By Denise J. Xu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Photographs of Katsina Dolls Enhance and Inhibit | 2/7/2008 | See Source »

...think it would be something making fun of Michael Vick. Possibly. Yeah, I’d try a line of Michael Vick scenarios.RR: Oh, wow, that hasn’t been done before.YP: It hasn’t? Really now, is that sarcasm or are you being serious? There hasn’t ever been a comedy making fun of that. It’s always been like, “Oh my God, let’s attack Michael Vick as a person,” but there isn’t anyone making any jokes about it. It?...

Author: By Jeffrey W. Feldman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ROVING REPORTER: The Writer's Strike | 2/7/2008 | See Source »

...finding fewer and fewer who have not already given the maximum legal limit of $2,300 for the primary race. "They've got to produce something out of these next nine states [that vote between Super Tuesday and March 4], or they are going to have some serious money troubles," says Obama adviser Steve Hildebrand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Not Over Yet | 2/7/2008 | See Source »

TIME: At one point you call the common view of heaven a "distortion and serious diminution of Christian hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Christians Wrong About Heaven, Says Bishop | 2/7/2008 | See Source »

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