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...Oscars and landed him on the cover of TIME. In this adaptation of a medieval ballad, expanded and Freudianized by scripter Ulla Isaksson, a sweet, pampered girl (Birgitta Pettersson) is murdered by herdsmen, who are in turn killed by her father (Max Von Sydow). A miracle play and a horror movie--it was remade in 1972 as The Last House on the Left--the movie retains its stark grandeur in the chiaroscuro cinematography of Sven Nykvist. As a peasant girl who witnesses and wills the murder, Gunnel Lindblom has a feral magnificence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 7 Favorite Foreign Films | 2/26/2006 | See Source »

Barry A. Shafrin ’09 likewise impressed audiences last semester, through his portrayal of leading man Brad in the HRDC’s "The Rocky Horror Show," along with other minor roles...

Author: By Mary A. Brazelton, Patrick R. Chesnut, Lindsay A. Maizel, and Natalie I. Sherman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Stage Bound | 2/23/2006 | See Source »

While this tendency to treat Wellesley students as less than women is common to male college students across Boston, most horror stories or awkward anecdotes concern MIT, prompting the creation of a facebook group called “For Better or Worse...I’ve Hooked Up With an MIT Frat Boy.” Wellesley’s close ties with MIT, ties which traditionally had been with Harvard, may be the cause of this...

Author: By Alexandra M. Gutierrez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Girls Next Door | 2/22/2006 | See Source »

...Hungarian Horror Our Numbers column [Jan. 30] included an item on a California student who set a new record for solving the Rubik's Cube puzzle: only 11.13 sec. The cube became wildly popular in the early 1980s. Here's an excerpt from our first report on the phenomenon [March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 2/19/2006 | See Source »

...Buvos Kocka means Magic Cube, but outside Hungary it is better known as Rubik's Cube, after its inventor, Erno Rubik. THE DEVICE IS ALSO SOMETIMES CALLED THE HUNGARIAN HORROR, SINCE IT CAN INDUCE TEMPORARY DEMENTIA IN OTHERWISE BALANCED CITIZENS ... It looks innocuous enough?a brightly colored plastic widget that could have been designed by Mondrian. It was developed in 1974 by Rubik, then 37, an architecture professor, to give his students greater experience in dealing with three-dimensional objects. It has six sides, each with a different bright color ... The aim of the game is to scramble the colors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 2/19/2006 | See Source »

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