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...From different sides, ?Fahrenheit? and ?The Passion? proved that, in an era of depressingly trivial pop culture, movies can matter. I hope official Hollywood gets the message about these two message movies. Let?s see if the Motion Picture Academy takes Moore?s dare - since, with his usual hellacious chutzpah, he refused to submit it in the documentary category - and nominates it for Best Picture. In fact, if Academy members have even a pair of cojones among them, they?ll nominate both ?Fahrenheit? ?The Passion? for Best Picture of 2004. Think of it: the outraged Left vs. the religious Right...
...designers like Alexander McQueen on the runway. Now the century-old crystal company wants to revamp lighting. "The chandelier is this luxurious, celebratory lighting fixture," says Nadja Swarovski, 34, who runs communications for the firm. "We challenged designers to reinvent it for today." Twenty- seven of them accepted the dare, and this month seven of the collection's 17 pieces--including Yves Béhar's Nest, above, a glowing cyclone suspended by strands of crystal, and Matali Crasset's Plexiglas Sky--were displayed at the Art Basel fair in Miami. All the fixtures are for sale through Swarovski. Karl Lagerfeld...
Three days before he left, Jenkins saw Dresnok one final time. Dresnok, Jenkins sensed, knew his friend was leaving for good, although the two didn't dare discuss it. "During the time my wife was gone, Dresnok would come over every day. We would have coffee and talk. He is all by himself...
...Mekamui government." The paint may be faded, but the warning is current. Beyond it, a jumble of petrol drums, sticks and signs blocks the narrow bitumen strip, and in the shadows a group of young men stand guard. For most people, Morgan Junction is as close as they dare come to the island's forbidden zone...
...three Houses on campus to, according to a Crimson article published this fall, “promote various health-related resources on campus and serve as a sounding-board for student and tutor mental health and wellness concerns.†Clearly, the administration is aware of the problem. Dare I suggest that a good part of the solution might be taking some time off from Cambridge...