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...clothes (in contrast to the convincing disguise they provide for men in Shakespearean comedies) reveals the play’s agenda to express gender as rigid and biologically-determined. The fact that the eunuchs can dress monochromatically like women demonstrates that they have lost their biologically male trait...

Author: By David F. Hill, | Title: ARTSMONDAY: Playful ‘Princess’ Strikes Misogynistic Chord | 4/10/2005 | See Source »

Filmmaking is not an art form that breeds responsibility. This, admittedly, is not too profound a statement, but it certainly highlights a trait valued in the public’s judgement of films made by industry-proclaimed “auteurs”—excess. This came to mind when I looked at part of the Brattle Theatre’s slate for the weekend—two matinee screenings of Michael Cimino’s famous disaster Heaven’s Gate...

Author: By Clint J. Froehlich, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Auteurs Gone Wild!!! | 4/8/2005 | See Source »

...averted gaze, the hunched shoulders, the body pivoted away from the crowd. Shyness is a state that can be painful to watch, worse to experience and, in survival terms at least, awfully hard to explain. In a species as hungry for social interaction as ours, a trait that causes some individuals to shrink from the group ought to have been snuffed out pretty early on. Yet shyness is commonplace. "I think of shyness as one end of the normal range of human temperament," says professor of pediatrics William Gardner of Ohio State University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Secrets of the Shy | 3/28/2005 | See Source »

Your Hottest Trait: In the words of Steve, my “Turkish ass?...

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The 15 Hottest Freshmen | 3/17/2005 | See Source »

Your Hottest Trait: The wink

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The 15 Hottest Freshmen | 3/17/2005 | See Source »

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