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...senior year of high school, I read a Newsweek article about child soldiers in Sierra Leone. It was a new topic to me, and I wanted to find out more. So I sat down after reading the article and wrote a really short story, more like just a sketch of a really brutal and violent scene. I [thought], how can this little kid be killing people? It doesn't really make any sense to me, but I wanted to see if I could capture that. I put it aside for the next four or five years, until my junior year...
...from the picturesque poverty that “Rent”’s main characters experience.“Rent” isn’t just about poverty. It’s also about the horror of living with AIDS in the early 1990s. On this topic, “Rent” both succeeds and fails. On one hand, “Rent” may have succeeded in reducing some of the stigma associated with the disease. Students may find it difficult to understand the degree of stigma that used to be?...
...faithful consumer of new and varied products. The Nov. 3 event was crude, not because of the coarse language used by the speaker, but because it was a simple display of the market at work, co-opting what might have been a genuine attempt to reflect on a topic of significance. If the organizers of the event believed otherwise, they were deceived...
...just so crazy that it might work. What we may be seeing here is a new evolution of the Reality TV genre at work, one which, rather than relying on hyperbolizations of pseudo-reality, aspires to some seamless fusion of the real and the really-well-written instead. Every topic addressed in last Sunday’s debate between candidates Vinick (Alan Alda) and Santos (Jimmy Smits) seemed unnervingly contemporary in its relevance, from war and oil to health care. And here’s the weirdest part: the faux “debate” was moderated by Forrest...
...studio floor.Surrounded by severed body parts, the students of VES 130r: “Criticality, the Body and ‘Other’ Things” are exploring the body as a “physical, cultural, metaphysical, and social entity”—a topic as philosophical and subtle as the title of the course. Yet the studio is pulsing with energy: Performance art, sculpture, installations, and video are being used to examine themes as diverse as the nervous system and pregnancy. Visiting Professor Tishan Hsu circulates through the chaos, talking about a specialized type...