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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...want to know—what their teachers are like outside of lecture. Faculty dinners and other interactive events allow students a wonderful way to break down ossified images—but even then faculty members are still often in business attire. In our minds, professors stand eternally at the podium in coat and tie, a perpetual ideal: How strange would it be to see a professor in pajamas...

Author: By Diana McKeage | Title: Aesthetics and Academics | 12/1/2009 | See Source »

...nature of our commitment there, the scope of our interests and the strategy that my Administration will pursue to bring this war to a successful conclusion. It is an honor for me to do so here - at West Point - where so many men and women have prepared to stand up for our security and to represent what is finest about our country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Full Transcript of Obama's Speech | 12/1/2009 | See Source »

Often, before a movie scene is filmed, the director and cinematographer will bring in the leading actors' stand-ins to light and frame the shot. The opening image of Pedro Almodóvar's Broken Embraces shows this process with a stand-in for Penélope Cruz. Then the star actress enters the frame. She looks so somber, as if she's about to read a death sentence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broken Embraces: Death Becomes Almodóvar and Cruz | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

...Lino believes in interpersonal communication,” he said. “While we send out announcements over e-mail, he has an Eliot ‘Town Crier’ stand up in the dining hall and declare events over dinner. This brings us back to a time when people communicated face-to-face...

Author: By Barbara B. Depena, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: After Ten Years, Eliot Masters Plan To Depart | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

Several of the film’s vignettes stand out. Anyone who has seen Michael Haneke’s 2005 French-language drama “Hidden” recalls a certain scene: after 45 minutes of seemingly plotless meandering, a single moment of suicidal violence shocks the audience out of their fugue and puts them on the edge of their seats for the remainder of the film. “The Road” employs a similar effect; following a span of wandering, father and son come upon a disconcertingly civilized-looking house, which they are drawn to investigate...

Author: By Daniel K. Lakhdhir, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Road | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

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