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...premeditative, calculated, intentional slacker-with-a-plan like I am, then it's go-go-go," Lot says, explaining his less-than-stark schedule...
...anecdote stands in stark contrast to the dauntingly arcane summary for his fall course, Physics 287a "Introduction to String Theory...
...most graphically made to me in the fall semester following the Dunster tragedy: when suggestions were solicited for the new Mather House t-shirt slogan, one resident tutor wryly offered: "Twenty-five years and no murder-suicides." What moved me was not so much the macabre humor, but the stark realization that no one realized just how close Mather House had been to a similar tragedy just months before...
...That stark reality didn't protect him from overeager Argentine admirers while shooting Seven Years in Tibet on location in the Andes, which doubled for the Himalayas. By one account, Pitt's living quarters were ringed by young girls chanting, "Ole! Ole, ole, ole! Brad Peeeeet!" "Yeah, yeah, there was that stuff," he says, embarrassed. "Argentina is a place where not many movies come through, so I could have been New Kids on the Block for all they cared. And that stuff never did much for my ego. I mean, when we were kids, my sister had Andy Gibb...
...visually stark setting--Maine in the winter--oppresses with a further sense of isolation and remoteness. Perhaps intended as a part of Freundlich's tranche-de-vie attempt at a Thanksgiving that could really happen, this environment doesn't help us connect to the characters we watch trudging back and forth across the snow. While The Myth of Fingerprints should be commended for studiously avoiding a Hollywood treatment of the family drama, it can't quite conceal that where substance is wanting, it doesn't matter whether the surface is glossy or gritty...