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...underlying vision behind which currently apathetic faculty, students, and administrators can rally. For that vision we look to the Standing Committee on General Education, which has quite a challenge in front of it. With all of the optimism we can muster in the face of such foreboding omens, we wish it godspeed...
...wish I could say I was surprised. In truth, Pats fans already knew that Belichick doesn't play by Marquis of Queensberry rules. This February former linebacker Ted Johnson alleged that Belichick made him practice even after he suffered a concussion and that today he has brain damage so severe that he can barely get out of bed. But in Boston those earlier revelations - like these new ones - haven't hurt Belichick's popularity a bit. And there's only one thing that could: losing...
...Hollywood gave them one: the architect played by Charles Bronson in Death Wish. After his wife is murdered and his daughter raped, he is given a gun and, when attacked, kills the assailant, then stalks the city looking for muggers to punish. Reflecting and exploiting urban anxieties, the movie was panned by critics who found it reprehensible - "Poisonous incitement to do-it-yourself law enforcement," Variety proclaimed - and wildly garish. "This doesn't look like 1974," Roger Ebert wrote of Death Wish at the time, "but like one of those bloody future cities in science-fiction novels about anarchy...
...ludicrous or pernicious on its face, we must look for metaphors. For example: losing the one person you loved surely would turn your world inside out, and make the outside one suddenly threatening rather than welcoming. Is Erica's revenge scenario a fever dream of bereavement - a post-death wish? Is it a theoretical argument that the sensible side of Erica is having with her angry side? "You look at the person you once were, walking down that street," she says on the radio, "and you wonder: Will you ever be her again?" The question is at the heart...
...dies too. But in Erica Bain (Jodie Foster), a new spirit is borntough, ruthless, addicted to vengeance. This thriller, directed by Neil Jordan, has so many plot loopholes, it makes sense only as the fantasy of a bereaved soul. Or perhaps as an answer to the 1970s-era Death Wish films. Troubling and engrossing, it suggests that to become an urban hero, you first have to forget you're human...