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...compression of Salem’s history into a dark basement full of wax figures is a slick way to market the past. “Witchcraft sells, certainly, so that’ll draw people up there, and it’s a lure to tourists,” Larkin says. Hangings and stonings are more titillating than a broader historical explanation. “Rather than saying, ‘Well, they had economic problems, and they were on the brink of a shift to a shipping economy,’ That’s probably where...
...come on, we know you’re doing it for the money, Harvard has practically paved the yellow brick road that leads to Wall Street gold. The first stop on the path is the Office of Career Services (OCS), at 54 Dunster St, where the recruiting program gives slick city suits the chance to give your t-shirt, jeans, B average, and camp counselor summer job the once-over before transferring your name to the burger-flipping file. If you plan on avoiding that fate, recruiters, OCS staff and students who’ve made it through have...
...daring, exhilarating spirit to the fights too. These are gory production numbers, immediate but also abstract--studies in what the body can achieve and endure. And because Tarantino mostly eschewed digital effects and had his performers do the stunts, you get figuratively sprayed by the sweat all that slick terpsichore generates. Even the arcs of blood have the propulsion of crimson choreography. In this sense, Kill Bill is the greatest dance film since West Side Story...
...sweet on him--whether she'd kill him if it came to that. "I don't really care how good a listener he is," Karen says. Other actresses would snap out the line glibly; Gugino gives it the voice of both a dedicated marshal and a woman weary of slick-talking men. Karen Sisco is like that: a witty, mature drama that can hit both the chest and the heart. --By James Poniewozik
That mind set was put to the test a mere 2:15 into the game, when Jen McDavitt finished the first of her two goals on a slick drive in the circle, putting Harvard...