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...gothic anthology “Trapped Ashes” on opening night. In four segments, it follows a group of strangers on a Hollywood studio tour who find themselves caught inside the decaying set of an infamous old horror film. In order to get out alive, they must tell their strangest and most twisted stories. Writer and producer Dennis Bartok left his position as head programmer at the art house American Cinematheque in Los Angeles to work on the film. “It’s about the grotesque, the surreal and the erotic, the weird intersection between real...
...save her dying mistress. Her voice remaining at a near whisper, Morrison touched on themes of race, gender, and human dignity throughout the reading. As in much of her work, a mystical atmosphere pervaded the story. “How many times do I have to tell you? Demons do not bleed,” she read, quoting a widow speaking to her dying daughter. “We bleed—demons never.” Ultimately, however, the reading transformed into a reminder of the transcendent power of love. Gloria I. Montiel...
...joke.“The dean’s office didn’t realize that our acronym was Harvard SUCS,” Greenbaum explains. But soon, it seemed that the proverbial jig was up. “They called us in to tell us we needed to change the name, so we thought they would be pissed.”As it turned out, the dean’s objection was actually just that “Harvard” could refer to any one of the various schools within the University, so the group needed to specify...
...possible.Pinker’s lengthy and detailed categorization of “his little friends”—verbs—plods along, reading like a lecture in Linguistics 101. There are moving and changing verbs (brush, dribble, shake), verbs of having, knowing, and helping (bring, tell, fix), and verbs of acting, intending, and causing (march, come, kill). Verbs in their contexts determine a specific understanding of intention and situation, Pinker reminds us. After all, in English, “juice dripped from the peach” is different than “the peach was dripping...
...content without fear of prosecution. “We want to preserve the incentives that copyright law sets up, but it shouldn’t be by blocking reproduction at every place that it might happen,” Seltzer said. “Regulation can’t tell the difference between academic, creative sharing, and file-sharing to get around purchasing,” she added. Green was quick to respond to the argument that regulation impinges on academic freedom. “I can see I’m being set up as the fall guy here...