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...three members, including director Atom Egoyan, pushed through a Jury Prize citing fellow Canadian David Cronenberg's Crash for "audacity." This year, a couple of those Type-A personalities are said to be clashing. A real tug-of-hair may be in progress. When the Jury comes on stage one by one, check for missing tufts...
...nonsense,” on the one hand; “doubtless,” “obvious,” “unquestionable,” on the other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, antiacademic languor at this stage as well may match the grader’s own mood: “It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists—at times, indeed, approaching the ludicrous—that smile as we may at its follies, or denounce its barbarities, the truly monumental...
...most rebellious of the ex-slaves. The director is also fond of parading America's old crimes, most explicitly in a closing montage of lynchings and other rank injustices to African-Americans. But though the film uses Dogville's technique of presenting all the action on a single stage, with no realistic sets and few props, it hasn't the kick or the sweep of the earlier film. Von Trier is up to the same old innovations and outrages, and audiences are used to them by now. Perhaps the trilogy's conclusion, Washington, will bring the director back to form...
Most contestants opted for nontraditional formal-wear—Workman, clothed in denim shorts and a large black wig, was escorted down the aisle by a gorilla. Lowe chose to cavort down the steps in a glamorous drag costume, and McCambridge soared to the stage dressed as the Winthrop Superhero Mr. Incredible...
This year’s Class Day speaker will be nothing less than the paradigm of parental perfection. Tim Russert, host of NBC’s Meet the Press, will be addressing our fair seniors from the stage of Tercentenary Theatre—and we can guarantee that it will be squeaky clean. In an attempt to avoid an Ali G style muck-up, the Alumni Association, Deans of the College, along with other members of the administration, have expressed their displeasure with last year’s lewd Class Day and “requested” that...