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...noisemakers. “Apple for a Brain” is composed particularly with provocation in mind, its bouncing beats and chirping drums suddenly giving away after two minutes into what seems like a completely different song. This is far from an isolated example of the group disregarding musical conventions??just one of the reasons why “Dear God” is far from accessible...
...impossible to miss. Besides the fact that she is essentially the only famous female filmmaker to have emerged during the French New Wave in the 1960s—an aesthetic turning point in the history of film when naturalistic settings and real-life plot lines challenged traditional, cheesy Hollywood conventions??Varda is a powerhouse.Varda was celebrated at the Harvard Film Archive’s retrospective, “Ciné-Varda,” a combination of film screenings and lectures that took place this past week from March 8-16. Demonstrating the same independent streak that runs...
...facing intense public scrutiny, interrogators will certainly appreciate concrete guidelines. Without them, intelligence officials could face inconsistent standards of what exactly crosses the line of an “outrage on human dignity.” By listing what is not permitted, however, the bill will weaken the Geneva Conventions?? protections because it will define, and thus limit, what constitutes a violation. Specific rules may be desirable, but they do not have to be written in a manner that will undermine the treaty.Phrasing the clarifications positively would more effectively uphold the Geneva Conventions. The bill, like the Army...
...remains one of the most recognizable faces in American politics—serving as honorary chairwoman of the American Ballet Theatre in place of her late mother, co-founder of the Profiles in Courage Awards, president of the Kennedy Library Foundation, and a frequent face at Democratic National Conventions??she applies to motherhood the same need for normalcy that she applied to life at Harvard...
Described as “speculative,” science fiction, especially in its older forms, explores the social effects of imagined technology, a theme with resonance in today’s society. But unlike the “more serious” adult conventions??like the one held in Boston last weekend—Vericon will be “focused on people playing around,” said Michael R. von Korff ’07, the guest coordinator for Vericon...