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...significant role in the NYPD’s unwillingness to recognize him as a true threat to the war on drugs and the Sicilian Mafia’s unwillingness to recognize him as a true competitor in the business of organized crime. Ever the clever opportunist, Lucas uses society??s disparaging notions of African-American intelligence and strength to operate below the radar and ultimately manipulate those parties who assumed him powerless. Director Scott (“Gladiator”) uses quick cuts to and from close-ups of Lucas’ eyes and his surroundings to emphasize...
...producer. “It functions sort of the same way jazz does, with these conventional ways to embellish the written music.”Of course, the way that the music is written is not the only thing that has changed. As always, the Harvard Early Music Society??s production will feature an entire spectrum of unusual instruments, ranging from the relatively common harpsichord (they have two, actually) to the improbable-seeming overgrown lute known as the theorbo. Baroque trumpets, baroque oboes (or “haut-boys”), and baroque bows for string instruments...
...sort of violent pornography that treats women exclusively as subordinate objects, for instance, reveals a disturbing element of sexual desire. Yet, however tacky or disgusting we may find it, we should recognize that most porn is just the extreme end of a gradient of objectification that occurs regularly in society??involving both men and women. Movies, ads, casual flirting—all can sometimes involve an element of objectification in how we look at others, but that does not mean they are always inherently harmful. MacKinnon’s brand of feminism is of that tired sort that...
...Harvard’s own Professor Leila N. Ahmed (who is pointedly critical of medieval Islamic society??s treatment of women), wrote at length of what she calls “colonial feminism”: a part of the “civilizing” mission of the British, whereby British colonial presence in Egypt was justified with claims to liberate “native” women from oppression—all while Englishwomen still lacked the right to vote. Horowitz’s logic is nothing more than colonial feminism in today?...
...lacks the “Office Space” hijinks that Coupland would ideally revel in. “The Gum Thief” squanders Staples’s humorous potential to focus on emotive passages that seem silly within its walls. Coupland has created the archetypes of society??s endgame, but instead of bringing them back to the living with his trademark wit, he terminates them with all the passion of a Xerox user manual.“The Gum Thief” may have been Coupland’s play for postmodern literary power...