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...even as the Connecticut decision brought celebration to New England this week, it was a stark counterpoint of last week’s wave of bad news: from California, Florida and Arizona, all of which passed referenda amending their state constitutions to ban same-sex marriage. Even as Massachusetts and California appeared at one point to sit at the vanguard of a movement for marriage equality in the United States, the popular tide seems to have turned in a worrying direction...
...horrific payoff, which is discouraging considering that the moment in the hospital has almost no impact whatsoever on the relationship between the two youths.This complaint, however, is relatively minor when one considers the impact that the majority of the film attains. The cinematography perfectly showcases the cold, stark isolation of the film’s wintry setting, while the meticulous framing of Oskar and Eli, isolated side-by-side in the windows of their neighboring apartments, highlights the duality of their respective natures. There are also a few purposefully understated moments which lend the film some surprising subtexts...
...Behind all this flash and exuberance is a stark reality. The southern section of the San Andreas Fault hasn't moved in about 300 years. We know it moves about every 150 years. So California is overdue for a major quake. In April, a new report concluded there is a 99.7% chance that a magnitude 6.7 or stronger quake will shake California within the next 30 years...
...only characters who have gone crazy in this production; the entire cast has gone with them. Suddenly Tennessee Williams’s play has turned into some sort of zombie nightmare. The cast is laden with heavy black eye makeup, and characters such as Mrs. Foxhill (Rachel A. Stark ’11) shuffle around the stage, stare into the audience with vacant expressions, and speak in monotone. Sister Felicity (Hollie Zegman) even wipes down the floor with red water resembling blood as the action of the play continues on around her.The high-pitched and babyish voice Medina uses...
...Coppola's The Godfather. This is not a book about how to get out of financial debt or how to manage your accounts. In fact, the last third of the book focuses on humanity's indebtedness to nature, as told through a parody of A Christmas Carol and the stark, postapocalyptic reality that awaits Scrooge if he does not change his ways and listen to the Ghost of Earth Day Past. TIME talks to Atwood about Payback, the environment and what happens when...