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...acting out fantasies of aggression for the grind-house trade. Well, no. For a start, Tarantino's films are energized not so much by violence as by its threat; it's in the air like a balloon ready to explode. More important, Tarantino, 31, sees movie violence as a vivid visual correlative for the internal agitation of urban America, for all those people who believe their lives are a pitched battle for self- preservation. If he romanticizes his gunmen, he also anchors them in vulnerability, stupidity and the blinkered loyalty of men to men. But damn, they're good company...
Carnesale has replaced former Provost Jerry R. Green's print of Old Harvard Yard with a vivid oil painting by Milton Avery. Fresh green plants hang in the windows of his Massachusetts Hall enclave, and three pine boxes bearing the words "In," "Out" and "Too Hard," sit awaiting the white-haired administrator's papers...
When playing, Levin's body sways back and forth, but he can still somehow deliver cogent sentences. Students say his lectures are vivid and interesting...
Gone from its prominent spot over the fireplace is the traditional waterprint of old Harvard Yard. In its place is a vivid oil abstract by Milton Avery...
...think that anything in the bulletin is different or radical. It's simply more information and information presented in somewhat more creative ways," Light says. "Again the point was to be more vivid, to turn it into truly an introductory piece instead of a handbook about Harvard...