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ZADIE SMITH. Smith, a Radcliffe Institute fellow whose debut novel White Teeth earned her the Whitbread First Novel Award and comparisons to Salman Rushdie, will discuss the morality of the novel. The talk is sponsored by the Radcliffe Institute. Monday, April 14 at 4 p.m. Free. Agassiz Theatre, Radcliffe Yard, 10 Garden...
...Steamboat Willie got the press. Crowds created near mob scenes as they rushed to see this "riot of mirth." In truth, it was crude stuff. But Mickey turned a cow's tail into a hurdy-gurdy handle, and it mooed music as he cranked away. Another bovine's teeth became a xylophone on which he beat out a tune. In short, Willie had what its more pretentious competitors lacked--energy and freedom. And its creator was on his way to fame, riches and immortality. --By Richard Schickel
...Dalmatians. She spent the morning crawling along the slope of the nearby gorge but found very little until just before noon, when she noticed a scrap of enormously thick bone protruding from beneath the surface. She instantly realized that it was part of a hominid skull--and that two teeth were embedded in the rock just above it. Elated, she drove back to camp to tell my father Louis. As he remembered it, she rushed in crying, "I've got him! I've got him! I've got him!" What my mother Mary had discovered were the fragments...
Kasdan hasn't held back on it in Dreamcatcher, with snakelike aliens created by his friend George Lucas' Industrial Light & Magic that have oval, teeth-packed mouths--clearly intended to be a Freudian nightmare--and a completely disgusting scene involving a toilet. "People say the scariest part of a movie is when you don't see something. Bulls___!" Kasdan says, chewing on a Twizzler while reviewing the sound of a door being opened by an alien, for which he requests additional "wet squeegee" noises. "I want to see something when I go to the movies...
...engage him in argument and jabs him in the shoulder. White lunges at him and the two scuffle into the middle of the street until six police officers dive through the crowd and pull them forcibly apart. White strains under the grasp of a burly officer, gritting his teeth and bobbing his head furiously toward the other man. Then he collapses into the officer’s arms, exhausted. Sirens wail; police vehicles surround the intersection in an instant...