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Levitin's piece on "Har Homa" was a curious mixture of the ill-informed, the self-contradictory, the vindictive (indeed racist), and--on one issue--the correct...
...helps explain its weirdness. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is based on a silent 1920 German Expressionist film of the same name about a mysterious hypnotist who enters a German town and causes all manner of horror and havoc. The film, in turn, draws upon the work of a curious theater of the time based in Paris called the Grand Guignol. For over six decades, the Guignol produced plays resembling a grotesque puppet show, but with live actors. Real-life crime and bawdiness were brought to the stage for elite audiences craving campy entertainment full of fake blood and unthinkable...
Everyday life, love-making and self-definition have long recaptured our primary attention since last fall's elections. Lately, though, when I hear people say, "I'm not into politics," I am curious as to their intent. Whether or not you identify with the political structure of this country and participate in it, as my mentor this past summer, Elisania Nunez, asserted, "Politics is into...
Sports fandom is a curious cultural phenomenon. Players, coaches, and even cities, come and go, but many sports fans continue to follow the same teams...
Accidentally leaving an account opened is just one of the ways in which curious eyes read private e-mail. But it once again invites the danger of having people falsify mail...