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...late Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein once said that the meaning of a word was derived from the way it is used in language. Not according to McDonald's. The fast-food giant is currently lobbying dictionary publishers to change the meaning of the word McJob - or remove it altogether - on the grounds that it denigrates the company's employees...
...hosted by the Global Cultural Club, a group of Korean-Americans dedicated to spreading and sharing Korean culture. Cabot Resident Tutor Ha Yan Lee invited representatives of the Los Angeles-based group to Cambridge to participate in the ceremony, in which Snezhana B. Zlatinova ’07 and Ludwig “Matt” Otto ’07—who began dating after meeting during freshman orientation—were fake-married. “We really wanted to demonstrate some of the great things about Korean culture in small, warm ceremony...
...plot moves along, the realities of German life outside the Kit Kat Klub become more apparent, and the second act is accordingly much grimmer. Aspiring politician Ernst Ludwig (Daniel V. Kroop ’10) becomes the face of the growing Nazi party; as he rises, both the relationships that developed in the first act fall apart...
Bobby (Nicholas A. Noyer ’09), a male dancer at the cabaret and part-time thug working for Ludwig, was perhaps my favorite character. Noyer made this role his own, and deserves high praise for the result. Although he was no small man, Noyer pranced about the stage like a graceful fawn, and was the highlight of the song “Two Ladies”—and just about every other scene...
...around onscreen belong to Carice van Houten, who plays Rachel Steinn, alias Ellis de Vries, a dazzling on-the-lam Jew recruited to spy for the resistance. An able temptress and a contemplative soul, she adopts a dour disposition as willingly as she strips for her assigned Nazi boytoy Ludwig Müntze. Verhoeven, who co-wrote the screenplay with Gerard Soeteman, tries to make de Vries’ relationship a source of ethical tension, but the film overflows with so much sex that the audience almost forgets about the crimes Müntze commits as a high-ranking...