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Once out of the dark room, Lieberman gravitated toward sculpture and video. Her first video, “PATTY,” takes its subject matter from the security-camera footage of Patty Hearst, the heiress kidnapped and brainwashed by the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), robbing a bank along with her captors. The piece incorporates aspects of the SLA’s manifesto, fairy tales, 1970s horror and science-fiction film, TV news interviews and would-be Warhol assassin Valerie Solanas’ radical feminist “SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men) Manifesto...

Author: By Thomas J. Snyder, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Rebecca Lieberman ’10 | 4/27/2010 | See Source »

...Cracks,” a dark little tale directed by Jordan Scott (daughter of director Ridley Scott) and set in a girls’ boarding school in the English countryside, all is outwardly beautiful. And how! Lips in the film, which are usually pouting and receiving of loving close-ups, are deepest crimson; as sensuously undulate as the verdant hills in the background. The water in which the girls take their diving lessons is always sparkling, set in such a contrast to the gray stone of the school that it makes the harmony of colors sing. Everything is shot with...

Author: By Michael A. Yashinsky, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cracks | 4/27/2010 | See Source »

...Skirts!!!?!” is a mind-bending, extremely dark, and very funny play that questions the conventional understanding of sanity. While not perfect, Giuliani’s direction creates a baffling, yet ultimately rewarding theatrical experience...

Author: By Araba A. Appiagyei-Dankah, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fat Men in Skirts!!!?! | 4/27/2010 | See Source »

...Skirts!!!?!” excells at engaging its themes, but it does have some notable flaws. Occasionally, Giuliani’s direction crosses the line between dark humor and graphic tastelessness, as in the scene when Bishop eats a dead baby and continually spits chunks of it across the stage. In moments like these, the play is completely inaccessible and repulsive, rather than thought-provoking or funny...

Author: By Araba A. Appiagyei-Dankah, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fat Men in Skirts!!!?! | 4/27/2010 | See Source »

...creation of an atmosphere in which students feel empowered to explore a world unfamiliar to them without fear of ‘failure,’ without fear of competition from those already ‘more comfortable’ than they, and without fear of dark marks on their transcripts...

Author: By Gautam S. Kumar and Evan T. R. Rosenman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Malan Says CS50 To Keep Letter Grades | 4/26/2010 | See Source »

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