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...also believe that feedback and formal instruction in oral communication are effective ways to help students become more confident and compelling speakers. Admittedly, many students have the chance to practice their oratory in section discussions and extracurricular activities. But without specific focus on these skills within the curriculum, practice does not necessarily translate into progress. Those students who are already comfortable speaking tend to speak up while those who are uncomfortable stay silent. By formally integrating the oral component, Expos would help more students learn an essential life skill...
...sure, many of the proposals of the HCCR’s report are thorough and well-reasoned. Quantitative analysis, a necessary skill, received appropriate attention in the report. Its teaching must be planned carefully, so that students will be successfully equipped with adequate quantitative abilities by the time they graduate. Second, by making at least a gesture toward the diminution of pre-med requirements, the report admirably strives to combat one of the major remaining impediments to the full realization of the liberal arts. Finally and most importantly, by reaffirming its dedication to faculty-student interaction, in particular through increased...
...what Tsai's far superior 2001 film What Time Is It There? had in every frame: authentic feeling. Instead of the emotion that suffused the earlier movie?however artfully repressed?in Goodbye we get minutes-long still shots of an empty theater. There are occasional flashes of Tsai's skill for silent comedy, but the payoffs shrivel beneath the lumbering weight of the setups. The film is full of atmosphere?it positively leaks it, like an old, worn-down movie house leaks light?but it has little else. Watching Goodbye is like facing off in a staring contest with...
This time it worked, because Busta Rhymes is an anachronism in rap music, a popular artist who gets by on lyrical skill and wit alone (taking hot beats for granted). Technically speaking, he’s an emcee’s emcee—he spits rhymes with perfect breath control, speeding up and slowing down, stopping and starting at will, lyrically careening all over the beat without losing a drip of flow. And for all his lyrics, he doesn’t say a damn thing, or at least nothing that isn’t needed to rock...
...this together.” While he admits to feeling hungry most of the time, Downing’s dedication to the sport makes it worth it. “[Losing weight] adds another dimension,” he claims. Furthermore, Downing doesn’t think that his skill at the art of dropping pounds will dominate his life. “I think I’ll be fat by the time I’m 30,” he says...