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...almost goes without saying that Dengler's story would attract (and obsess) Werner Herzog, a director drawn to portrayals of men driven to extreme behavior in extreme situations. Herzog's features - Aguirre the Wrath of God, Fitzcarraldo - and his conditions - notably the great Grizzly Man- provide ample and thrilling testimony to the uniqueness of his enterprise. He is willing to go places no other filmmaker goes and he simply has no competitors when it comes to strenuous risk-taking. About a decade ago he made a hypnotic documentary about Dengler's exploits, entitled Little Dieter Needs...
...well as melacholy in a Harvard panel entitled “Dreams, Sex, Dust: Three Vietnamese American Writers.” Novelist Gish Jen ’77 moderated the April 12 event together with Cabot Professor of English Literature and Professor of African and African American Studies Werner Sollors. Essayist Andrew Lam, performance artist Lan Tran, and poet Truong Tran all presented readings to the audience gathered in Ticknor Lounge. Sollors provided opening remarks and introduced the first reading, Andrew Lam’s “Child of Two Worlds,” an angst-ridden autobiographical sketch...
...amendment calls for the new general education program to encourage study in languages other than English. “[Gen ed] aims to teach students to be citizens to the world,” said Virginie Greene, professor of Romance languages and literatures, who co-authored the amendment with Werner Sollors, the Cabot professor of English Literature and of African and African American Studies. “We have to take account in general education that the whole world doesn’t speak English.” The Crimson did not obtain copies of all the finalized amendments themselves...
...modern and contemporary art collection, with designs still in their early stages, and with community opposition rallied against the project, the future is still uncertain.MUSEUM MAMBOThe Fogg Art Museum, on 32 Quincy Street, has not changed substantially in the last 80 years. Despite more modern additions such as Werner Otto Hall, home to the Busch-Reisinger Museum, the core of the Fogg is much as it was when first built. The museum has substantial infrastructure issues problematic for its art—including a lack of modern climate control and buckling walls in the Busch-Reisinger?...
...Maybe so, but Zoo, which has notes of Werner Herzog's 2005 documentary Grizzly Man, caused festival goers to launch into heated debates on the shuttle buses and in the cafes of Park City about such unlikely subjects as whether a stallion can actually give consent and precisely how he might do so. Taxi drivers in town asked their passengers, "Have you seen the horse sex movie?" At a Q&A following one screening, the Seattle actor who plays Mr. Hands, John Paulsen, who is a priest, admitted that after hearing he had gotten the role, he wasn't quite...