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...Just before the show began, relief flowed with the sink water in the women’s bathroom. Thank God, said one senior, they didn’t scrawl V??s on our foreheads for being new to Rocky...

Author: By April H.N. Yee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Rocky End | 6/3/2008 | See Source »

...first half of the movie, for example, the filming protagonist’s face is kept in the shadows, effectively reducing his existence to little more than the lens of his camera. But “Diary of the Dead” is not without flaws. Despite the v??rité style of filmmaking, it is difficult to believe in these characters as flesh-and-blood humans because their roles are stereotypical—or, if you prefer, archetypical. You have the buxom blonde, the serious heroine, and the hard-drinking, philosophy-spouting professor...

Author: By Bram A. Strochlic, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Diary of the Dead | 2/15/2008 | See Source »

...responds in the negative, Baker replies, “How fortunate for you.” Powerful words from a man who knows himself too well.Despite Weber’s obvious fascination with the icon, the director brings the story to the screen with an almost cinéma-v??rité ambivalence that allows the audience to draw its own conclusion, with a few major exceptions. While informative and revealing, the portions of the film devoted to his former girlfriend and his third wife are overlong and exhausting, betraying the continuity of the documentary as an objective analysis...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Let's Get Lost | 2/7/2008 | See Source »

...result of the country’s socialist tendencies, is the organization of public entertainment, free from red ropes and costly tabs and instead open to all. In the capital, City Hall and the current (socialist) mayor have also done their fair share to improve Parisian life like V??lib, a new initiative which offers very cheap rental bikes around the city, and Paris Plage, transforming the banks of the Seine into Tahitian beaches for those who can’t flee to Saint Tropez for their summer tanning (although a French friend complained that the whole...

Author: By Claire M. Guehenno | Title: Put Your Hands Up for Paris | 8/10/2007 | See Source »

Sitting in a “V?? formation so that they faced each other rather than the audience, the monks began their performance by silently unwrapping the unassuming white bundles already laid out in front of them, revealing brilliant blue embroidered silks. The silks displayed the crown of the five Buddha families and the other accoutrements of the deity in preparation for The Vajra Master Initiation from the Yamantaka Tantra, the first piece of the evening. They quietly donned the silks and hats, each flank of the “V?? formation waiting until...

Author: By Anna K. Barnet, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tibetan Monks Fill Sanders With Spirit | 2/11/2007 | See Source »

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