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...profoundly everyone in the bunker loves death. Hitler, naturally, thinks the Germans have betrayed him and is willing to let them all die in a great Götterdämmerung while he passes out poison capsules to his circle. This leads to the most horrifying sequence in the film: Magda Goebbels, wife of the notorious Propaganda Minister, poisoning all six of her children because she does not want them to grow up in a world without National Socialism. This act, a blend of romantic and ideological fervor, is almost unbearable to witness. But it stresses what this riveting film most wants...
...completely unbelievable, so shamelessly ridiculous, that you and your friends will see what a sham romantic optimism really is. Afterwards, watch Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs and you’ll see quite clearly how conventional heterosexual relationships descend into shocking violence and degradation anyway. Then tell Magda how you really feel about...
...Russell Warner touched up the orchestrations to these just-short-of-classic Gershwin songs; and Rob Ashford staged some sublimely silly choreography. (My notes read, "six dancing couples form a giant pretzel," but I may have been hallucinating.) In a nifty cast, I especially liked Felicia Finley, who played Magda the saucy parlormaid. Finley has looks, a voice and that ageless soubrette pertness - the total musical comedy package. But then, that's what you almost always get at Encores...
...Gamecocks carried their momentum into singles play, emerging with the win after three straight-set victories in the first three completed matches. Magda Wojdylo defeated Anderson at the No. 6 singles spot 6-4, 6-2. Ganzer came out on top of Wang 6-2, 6-2 at the No. 3 spot, while Gutierrez clinched the win for USC by defeating freshman Cindy...
...thought CS50 could have been a good introduction, but the term introduction is a bit misleading,” says Magda Kowalczykowski ’03. “It’s a good, in-depth course, but its not good for people who have never tried [computer science] before. It was just way too fast, and it was all about getting the problem sets done, not about getting the underlying concepts...