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...five different multi-volume horror titles this year alone. Among them were two that should not be missed: Junji Ito's Museum of Terror and Toru Yamazaki's Octopus Girl. Arguably Japan's premier horror manga-ka, Ito has a fevered imagination that has given us Uzumaki, about a town beset by spirals, and Gyo, about dead fish that sprout legs and wreak havoc upon the land. Museum of Terror (two volumes so far, $14 each) collects the so-called Tomie tales, all featuring the beguiling teenage Tomie, a supernatural beauty with a nasty attitude who inspires complex feelings...
...what actor Sam Neill dubbed the "cinema of unease," perhaps most closely identified with Jane Campion's The Piano, Conrich has detected more recently "a wave within a wave." From the Samoan slapstick of Sione's Wedding to the Polynesian hip-hop of the cult animated TV series bro'Town, a distinctly Pacific flavor is adding warmth and a sense of humor to New Zealand screen culture. "I feel like we're in the middle of a real cultural boom," says No. 2's novice director Toa Fraser, whose father hails from the Fijian gold-mining town of Vatukoula...
...literally flowed with milk and honey–comes straight from Louisa May Alcott’s 1868 novel Little Women. And who doesn’t remember Fitzgerald’s description of Jay Gatsby: “He literally glowed?” But neither was the town of Plumfield overrun with food-stuffs nor our favorite social climber actually luminescent. [EDITOR'S NOTE APPENDED...
Undergraduate Council (UC) representatives questioned committee chairs of the Preliminary Report of the Task Force on General Education in a town hall meeting last night, focusing on proposed approaches to science and math. Bass Professor of English Louis Menand and Professor of Philosophy Alison Simmons spoke to a group of 50 students that weren’t limited to UC members in Harvard Hall. Calling the core “old-fashioned,” Menand said that the current system fragmented knowledge into specific academic disciplines more suitable for the ivory tower than the outside world...
...someone I might actually meet in the theater world. That isn’t necessarily a bad thing. “A Chorus Line” trades heavily in stereotypes, the performance of Michael L. Vinson ’07 as a flamboyant homosexual who disdains his small-town origins (“committing suicide in Buffalo would be redundant”) to Emerson senior Anna Haas’ cold, over-sexed valium user.These caricatures are too endearing to be offensive, though, and they’re frequently fun. In a few instances, cast members transcend their own roles...