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Stasis is always a danger when the emotional forces of a film are so neatly measured out. But formalism is a beginning, not an end, for Almodovar. For his sensibility is shaped by Spanish Surrealism and giddily influenced by his love for the sober-delirious improbabilities of old-fashioned American movie genres. He offers this rich blend, he says, "in the most natural presentation possible: dreams without any change in lighting." In short, his is a cinema wildly alive to unsettling juxtapositions and strange coincidences, at once true to the banalities of life as we generally see them yet even...
...Arts staff, considerably more robe robes orbs sore bore bores sober, and, hell, just a lot better at Boggle than their competitors, quashed their competition in each of the three separate rounds, for a final score of 90 against FM’s piddling 44. Arts put shame in FM’s game: Books editor Matthew B. Sussman ’03 scored 18 points in one round alone, while Arts Chair-elect Jacob H. Russell ’05 proudly announced that he was the only one who found P-E-N-I-S. For the sake...
...broken and bitter man,” but I do actually look forward each week to my not-so-brief respite from the dry world of news comp seminars and speech stories—to Tuesday, when I am invested with the sober responsibility of deciding whether it is okay to use the word “douche-cock” to refer to an FAS administrator, or whether calling Missy Elliott “a super-lesbian” is more sensitive and less homophobic than calling her “a big lesbian...
...print. His latest work, African Diary, a slim volume that recounts his journey to Kenya with aid workers from Care International, is also a departure from his usual persona. The millions of fans who have made Bryson's nine books worldwide best sellers will find little acerbity in sober tales of places like the Dadaab refugee camp or Kibera, a slum in southern Nairobi. "I was shocked at what I saw, but I also had to be careful not to damage Care's standing in the community," he says, explaining his decision to rein in his biting prose. "This...
...with Oprah. His real problem, and one that he lays out with care all through the book, is with a world in which the interior life becomes ever more threadbare as the means to sustain it--especially the essential consolations of serious reading--wither away. In tones that are sober but never lugubrious, Franzen weighs the pressures upon the self in a culture that manages the neat trick of discouraging real solitude and genuine community, substituting for both the paradox of media-overloaded isolation. "The first lesson reading teaches," he writes, "is how to be alone...