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So few women have made it to the upper echelons of the mathematics field that it is easy to assume the most unusual thing about Deborah Hughes Hallett is her status as a tenured professor at Harvard University.
However, as professor of the practice of teaching mathematics, Hughes Hallett's position may be the most conventional thing about her.
"I have two sets of interests," says Hughes Hallett, who was raised in England. "When I was in high school, I was sent to a rather artistic girls' school. I wanted to do physics and chemistry because I didn't sing."
...years ago, the Hughes brothers, Allen and Albert, made Menace II Society, a violent melodrama whose film-school flash won kudos. Last year's top novice was Kevin Smith, with his clever, scratchy comedy Clerks. Now these twentysomething phenoms are flouting the sophomore slump--the Hugheses with the epic-size Dead Presidents, Smith with the loosey-goosey comedy Mallrats. Joining them in the ambition to reach a wider audience is gay cult fave Gregg Araki, who gives his new tragi-comedy, The Doom Generation, the cunning subtitle "a heterosexual movie." The director of the homo-erratic dramas The Living...
The Hughes brothers are up to more serious business. Menace II Society had a kinetic kick, but it was also heinous in its uninflected take on teen brutality. Dead Presidents, which spans the Vietnam decade and hip-hops from the Bronx to 'Nam and back again, is expansive rather than...