Word: weird
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...film without a word of explanation. More dramatic than this sibling rivalry theme is Tommy's dilemma: to stay loyal to his best friend Chuckie or to fulfill his responsibility to his new brother. In fact, "sponsitility" plays an almost annoyingly large part in the storyline, giving a weird allegorical bent to the movie. These rather adult topics don't merge too well with the big bad wolf and the runaway monkeys; they don't fit the silly, epic quality of The Rugrats Movie...
Sadly enough, the answer in this case has to be `no'. In Their Eyes: '90s Teen Bands Vs. '80s Teen Movies presents 15 relatively unknown bands performing songs from the soundtracks of great John Hughes movies (for those not in the know, they are Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Weird Science, Pretty in Pink, Ferris Bueller's Day Off--whew), and other defining '80s teen movies like Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Say Anything. The gimmick here is that all the bands are comprised of teenagers, representing the sway these movies hold on today's adolescents. Considering the band...
...those songs which go out on a limb that actually come close to recapturing or even surpassing the spirit of the originals. The English League's mildly hip-hop influenced version of Oingo Boingo's "Weird Science" is an appropriately goofy take on a goofy song, complete with a melodramatic repetition of "she's alive!," while F.O.N.'s Californianska take on The Cars' "You Might Think" is appropriately trippy. But these are few and far between. Instead, we get mediocre takes on "Pretty in Pink," "I Melt With You" and "If You Leave...
...decaying into melancholy and the poisons of anti-Semitism. His eyes were failing too. In this show, which travels next to the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the best pictures match his dryness to his darkness. Go first to his elastic Nude (Drying Herself), which begins in weird lamplight and ends in shadow. As raw as any of E.J. Bellocq's shots of New Orleans prostitutes, it also has the strange torsion of Lee Friedlander's tumbling nudes. This is Degas, cold and formidable, who saw what was angular in what was modern, even when he painted ballerinas...
...small bedroom and cheered. Nora C. Cheng '02, one of the unwilling hostesses, rejoiced, "Thank God almighty I'm free at last!" What would occasion such evangelical language? A nightmare guest the likes of which none of the traumatized girls had previously seen. A guest who brought weird boys to their common room, went through their books, answered their phone, hooked up with four guys in two nights and asked to try on their clothes, was gone. They had tried to be nice and then settled for being civil after Maggie made a point of showing off her body, pointing...