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...other fanciful movies like “Enchanted.” The sets evoke the feel of an unconventional fairytale. The woodland colors in Penelope’s quarters are evidence of her affinity for nature while the harsh exposed brick of Max’s world shows the tragic desperation of his wasted talent and gambling addiction. The visual representations of characters extend to their wardrobes. Penelope’s playful wardrobe of jumpers, opaque tights, and Mary Jane’s captures a girl on the edge of womanhood. Her blue coat with red piping and mismatched buttons...
...Other Boleyn Girl” examines the relationships destroyed, the hearts broken, and the lives taken under Henry VIII’s reign, and, from a more modern perspective, the commerce of women between upper-class families. The film, directed by Justin Chatwick, is as tragic and gory as it is decadent and passionate. It tells the fictionalized story of the rise of the Boleyn daughters—Mary and Anne—in the English court of King Henry VIII, and how both come to bear his children though only one ascends the throne. Natalie Portman...
...robbery did not make him feel unsafe in the dorm. “Everyone who I’ve encountered in the house is very nice, and I don’t think this happens often,” said Strand. “This is a really tragic incident and I’m going to be more careful about locking my doors, but I don’t feel any more threatened in Thayer.” But Muse said that she had doubts about Thayer’s safety. “There are four ways...
...Meanwhile, costs related to in-patient treatment for an eating disorder can range from $25,000 to $30,000 a month. Many families are forced to take out second mortgages or deplete savings. Such situations are tragic, Holm-Denoma says. "Anorexia is one of the most serious psychiatric diseases our society faces," she says. "Our work shows even further that more needs to be done to prevent...
Ralph Nader has become the great tragicomic figure of American politics: tragic because he may have indirectly delivered the 2000 election to George W. Bush, who has worked tirelessly to oppose virtually everything Nader spent his life promoting, and comic because every four years, he seems to forget what happened last time and trot back out, blissfully unaware of the impacts (or lack thereof) of his previous attempts. And this image, in turn, has become the face of third party candidacies in America. Every time he runs, Nader further assures the voting public that independent candidates are benign, irrelevant eccentrics...