Word: severance
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...credit since 1995. In almost all of his films, a star is hired to give the production international attention, and then the movie is made with whatever is left of the budget. This system has led to such Citizen Kane-esque opuses as Half Past Dead, Ballistic: Ecks Vs. Sever, and the modern classic Battlefield Earth. It’s that kind of ethos that may be necessary for an auteur like Mamet to attain the status of “box office draw,” but it irreparably damages his ambition by tacking on mishmash such as this...
...last few years, these modern accoutrements of decision-making at Harvard are sadly familiar. But the situation just described isn’t taking place in some administrative corridor of power, where it might by now be reasonably expected—it’s unfolding in Sever 113, the meeting-room of the Undergraduate Council...
...omission of any mention of public film showings, it seems probable that HFA’s cinematheque will be a low priority, if not a candidate for elimination. This would be a disservice to local film lovers, including the students who attend screenings there—and certainly will sever Harvard’s ties with those in the Cambridge community who frequent the HFA. Moreover, discontinuing the screening program next fall would indicate an unfortunate kind of academic elitism in refusing to share a collection of film treasures with the public...
...10’s students and the two professors team-teaching the course, Professor of Government Michael C. Dawson and Professor of the History of Science and of African and African American Studies Evelyn Hammonds, are now accommodated comfortably in a lecture room in Sever Hall...
...pictures we identified them by. The they’d cut their hair, or exuded a new, vaguely Continental languor, or had become raconteurs. In their absence, we had bought books at the Coop and trudged up Garden Street to the Quad and had slept through lectures in Sever or Emerson—had done, in short, the same things Harvard students have been doing for generations. They hadn’t. It marked them...