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...Plummer. Fox News, the first media organization to publish a review of “The New World,” dubbed the movie “Pocahontas on Acid” before elaborating with a string of adjectives: “surreal, slow, confusing, choppy, and just plain weird.” Critics are already wondering why Malick would choose an actual fourteen-year-old to play the adult Smith’s love interest, or why the film jumps around in time without any warning or explanation...
...pretty much go along these lines: Isn’t incessantly quoting movies slightly annoying and kind of old? Did you just get lazy writing your list and turn desperately to imdb.com in the throes of despair? Are you, Marianne F. Kaletzky ’08, really random, slightly weird, and completely underqualified to be on the Crimson? Why on earth should I read a list about some stupid movie I don’t really care about...
...Midnite Vultures”-era whisper-funk.“Guerolito” isn’t a bad listen, per se. Most of the vocal tracks remain untouched, the downbeat songs are still downbeat, and the upbeat songs are still upbeat. If you want to have some weird fever-dream version of “Guero” to listen to, put the disc on. Otherwise, let’s leave the cut-and-paste reinvention to its mainstream master, Beck Hansen.—Staff writer Abe J. Riesman can be reached at riesman@fas.harvard.edu...
Aside from weird pictures, each issue of FM is sort of like a mishmash of student life, recipes, and one article that is too long to read. When there is a momentous story to be broken, such as Final Clubs, what kind of clothes a bunch of d-bags wear, what happens when you drive around a lot, or which 15 random seniors are more “interesting” than you, the FM staff dispatches one of its star investigative reporters to get in New Yorker mode and produce a mad long “Scrutiny...
...literary geniuses of our day, Harvard, in my opinion, remains slightly behind the times when it comes to full-fledged equality for women, greater social and economic stratification, and the bursting of that Harvard bubble that leaves us all feeling like we’ve been living in a weird mix between a young-adult daycare and an Old Boy’s Club when we graduate. I sometimes get the urge to pull out a pipe and sit in a red leather chair discussing Kant with my cronies. (And I don’t even smoke?...