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...heads the Klan's chapter in Aurora, Colo. Like his mentor, Slater has mastered the art of attracting publicity by staging events that draw the wrath of protesters. In Denver last January, he orchestrated a Klan rally on Martin Luther King Day that turned violent when anti-Klan protesters threw bottles, overturned a police car and battled police. The incident allowed Slater to score a publicity coup on CBS'S 48 Hours...
Ashvin, as I've said, was great. But there wasalways the evil girlfriend Navarra, looming in ourroom. The stories about her are worthy of severalvolumes alone. I think the best concerns the timeshe threw a fit after Ashvin resisted going toboth nights of her four or five hour danceperformance, She came into our room, nodded to me,wrote a note on his desk and looked in his closetfor some clothes. I didn't think much of it--shedid that all the time. Turns out she wrote in thenote that she had "cut to shreds the thing youlove most--your crew...
...Radcliffe Union of Students questionedthe council's authority to make suchrecommendations and threw its weight be hind thetask force's report...
Medical School students threw tongue depressors in the air as Rudenstine pronounced them graduates. Business School students waved tiny flags, and School of Public Health students threw condoms. Kennedy School students tossed crimson streamers--red tape...
...Trier will never be nailed on that rap. He passionately promotes himself and European movies. At last year's Cannes festival, when this film lost out to the Hollywood comedy Barton Fink, Von Trier threw a snit fit, angrily claiming that his movie was bolder and better. He was right. Zentropa plunders the film vocabulary -- back projection and superimposition, black-and-white with shrieks of color -- to anchor its weirdness in classical technique. The legerdemain reminds you of the artificial nature of movies even as it draws you back to the era when pictures seduced the audience into a communal...