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...Blood,” and any good biographical movie, you stop nitpicking the details—what did or didn’t happen—and get carried along so properly that you believe what you are seeing must be true. Most of the praise should be heaped upon the actors who gave themselves to the roles. Catherine Keener’s Harper Lee is demurely repressed, but also a firm adult who keeps the petulant Capote under control. Chris Cooper’s Alvin Dewey strikes the right balance of a character that both chooses to help Capote...
...awakening to and experiencing the world around him, “Elizabethtown” is about a character learning to accept his life and all its shortcomings, or, as Claire puts it, to “wallow in the delicious misery.” The quick cuts that overwhelm upon Drew’s first meeting his family in Kentucky are replaced by calmer shots at the end, and, like Drew, we are finally able to see the beauty in his surroundings despite (or perhaps due to his acceptance of) the frequent disarray. Ultimately, the film succeeds because Crowe...
...Unlike Rowling, who makes sure we understand the stakes of the Potter-Voldemort battle, methodically creating a new world that draws upon long literary traditions of horrible families and utopian British boarding schools, Taylor begins “Shadowmancer” as the nefarious Obadiah Demurral is on the verge of perfecting his power. Already in possession of one magical talisman—a Keruvim—Demurral only needs the other to complete his goal. But the lives of Kate and Thomas are so bad—destitute, with infirm or alcoholic parents—that it is hard...
...much larger scale. A completely transparent glass building could be built on the small grassy triangle next to Memorial Hall. This “Wintergarten,” as Kayden dubs it, would be connected to Loker and include places to eat and hang out, transforming a rarely tread-upon grassy knoll into an architectural marvel. A space-y pipe dream? Not necessarily: the Provost, a few deans, and Special Assistant to the Dean Zachary A Corker ’04 have all seen the study. Echoing the rest, Corker pronounced it “great.” Whether...
...According to McLoughlin, the campus needs to take a huge chill pill. “It’s a culture shift,” he says. “We need to let down and have fun.” Even Loker Pub will place responsibility for fun upon the shoulders of undergraduates. “I think ultimately, student life is the province of students. It’s really up to undergrads to make their social experience,” says Corker.Apparently, nobody has told the freshmen that they need a student center before they can have...