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...only dynamic motif in “Eight White Nights” is the coded language that the lovers invent in order to communicate with each other. One of Aciman’s more inspired devices, it infuses the relationship between Clara and the protagonist with the warmth and poignancy of two kindred spirits attempting to invent a hermetic universe for themselves. They invent the terms “otherpeoples” and “Shukoffs” in their very first conversation, referring to the mass of boring, unimaginative humans who surround them. Their conversation continues, full...
Aciman’s effort in “Eight White Nights” to imitate Proust and constantly dwell within thoughts, metaphors, code-phrases, and imagined scenes of passion is misguided. The prose is feverish and obsessive; though his writing occasionally reaches lyrical heights, the banality of his subjects often overpowers. It particularly raises the question of whether the flowery, (pand)angsty voice of the narrator isn’t just Aciman’s projection of how he believes women want men to think, feel and obsess over them, since there doesn’t appear...
...opening scene of “Tampopo,” a man dressed in a white tuxedo and seated in a theater looks into the camera and says, “So you’re at a movie, too. What are you eating?” This line is befitting of ‘Food at Twenty-Four Frames Per Second’ (‘Food at 24fps’), the free film festival which “Tampopo,” an ode to the ramen noodle, opened last Monday in the Adams Pool Theatre. The line...
Principal contributors to the festival include Vaughn Y. Tan ’05, currently a Ph.D. student at Harvard Business School; Professor Corky White, an anthropology professor at Boston University and a Japanese studies researcher at Harvard’s Reischauer Institute; Gus E. Rancatore, owner of Toscanini’s Ice Cream; Huan Zhou ’11, a resident of Adams House; and Robert V. Fitzsimmons ’10 of Pforzheimer House...
...these organizers, Professor White, said that she hoped the festival would be fun and not too heavy. Regardless of whether or not the mood of the festival is light, attendees can be sure that their stomachs will be heavy with food after the screenings—a fitting complement to the fare that they saw on the big screen...