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...Borat does well, it could change comedy in two ways. First, if high-grossing movies can be made with just a video camera and a few guys in a van, the studios might find real competition from every fool with a digital camera and access to YouTube. Second, it might limn the generational divide in the way music used to. Because any normal person over 35 is going to find Borat horrifying. What exactly is funny about being invited to nice people's homes and handing them your feces...
...house and dumped on the floor. He could dimly hear a conversation in another room but could not hear what was being said. After a few minutes, he was pulled up and practically dragged outside. This time he was pushed into what he thinks was the back of a van, which smelled of engine oil and urine. The second drive was shorter than the first, no more than 30 minutes. Again he was pulled out and taken into a house. The wait was longer--perhaps two hours--before he was dumped back into the van for another half-hour drive...
...tokyo gallery usually reserved for the painterly impressions of Renoir's bathers, Monet's water lilies and Van Gogh's windmills, a group of white-gloved, green-uniformed installation specialists have gathered round the much earthier canvas of Judy Watson's Aboriginal Shield, which has come all the way from Wollongong. Around the corner, Ken Thaiday Senior's tiger-shark headdress occupies a cabinet where early Greek and Egyptian antiquities are normally housed. But this day the biggest impression comes when Patricia Piccinini's mutant possum sculpture emerges-bearing impossibly lifelike wrinkles, hair and fangs-from its packing box. "With...
...were freshman Jessica Setlesss (20:36) in 97th place and junior Tiffany Abramson (22:07) in 103rd. The next meet, in which the full squads will compete, comes this weekend at the Heptagonal Championships. The meet is the defacto Ivy League championship and will be raced at Van Cortlandt Park in New York City. —THE CRIMSON STAFF
Wynn and Adelson have done more to remake Las Vegas than anyone else, and yet no two businessmen could be less alike. Wynn is Vegas royalty, the artist who rejuvenated the Strip by going upmarket in tone with the Bellagio, which showcased Van Goghs and Cezannes and Degas's dancers instead of topless showgirls. He lost the place to raider Kirk Kerkorian, who took over Wynn's company, Mirage Resorts, and booted Wynn, who scored a $6.4 billion payout but still had a score to settle. Last year Wynn returned with the new Wynn Las Vegas: more hushed, more exclusive...