Word: storyã
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...newsworthy, stories don’t have to result in an immediate reaction. Printing information that adds to campus discussion or that might promote some greater understanding will, in the long run, serve the campus well. We feel strongly that a newspaper owes its readers the full story??€”printing whatever, in its editors’ best judgment, will be interesting and important to its community...
...Painter of Birds documents the lives and relations of an extended Portuguese family living through and after World War II. Told through the varying points of view of an omnipresent narrator and the story??€™s protagonist, The Painter of Birds is a coming of age story much like Julia Alvarez’s How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents. Jorge’s characters, like Alvarez’s, live in a large family compound under the guidance of a stern father who watches in pain as his offspring leave him and his family values behind...
...shorts program, the chief delight of the festival is Bill Plympton’s taste-impaired animated feature Mutant Aliens, which delivers what its title promises and more. Its genetically altered space animals stomp, impale, gulp down, and otherwise commit murder in the name of justice for Earl, the story??€™s embittered astronaut hero. Earl’s chief opponent, the money-minded space official Dr. Frubar, soon learns that an antagonist who relies on the support of ad money and horny secretaries can only advance so far. Plympton’s inventive mind is perceptive enough...