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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Coming home late Wednesday night, I ran into a friend in the Winthrop courtyard. It was cold and very clear. Orion, one of three constellations I can identify, hung in the southwestern sky, his belt and sword bright. We could see our breath. I started to push my friend on the tire swing, and he asked whether I knew “Dover Beach...

Author: By Phobe Kosman, | Title: As on a Darkling Plain | 12/20/2004 | See Source »

...born ready, motherfucker”) and that is okay, because Goyer understands that dialogue is really secondary when one can cover all plot points through images of perspiration, Jessica Biel washing blood off in the shower, and numerous, numerous phallic symbols (vanquishing vampires with a giant sword, shooting arrows with weird green goo in them into a target that causes a disease, vampire dildos...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Film Review | 12/10/2004 | See Source »

...sword-fighting, daughter-kidnapping, Johnny Depp-featuring fun of last year’s Pirates followed by the recent French film Love Me, director Laetitia Masson’s story about a young French girl who finds herself without memories or direction in an American airport. Call the Harvard Film Archive at (617) 495-4700 for admission details. Pirates at 6:30 p.m. and Love Me at 9:15 p.m. The Carpenter Center Main Auditorium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Happening | 12/10/2004 | See Source »

...more exalting and inaccessible tasks makes it far too easy to forget our necessary affiliations with the rest of society. However, the confused crowds jostling at the entrance to the sacred spaces of Widener should make us question exactly why we choose to bar their entrance with a flaming sword...

Author: By Alexander Bevilacqua, | Title: A Wide-Open Widener | 12/3/2004 | See Source »

...French ports and trying to marry one of the governors' daughters before you retired. Now Sid Meier's classic has been given a 21st century makeover. Meier has added lush new 3-D graphics and a host of minigames within the game. You can try your hand at sword fighting or sneaking into a hostile town at night. Wooing the governor's daughter now involves dancing the right steps at a society ball. Best of all, Pirates! (for PC; $49.99) still lets you play exactly the way you want to, turning the entire Caribbean into your own giant sandbox...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Video Games: Cool Games | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

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