Word: mattered
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Kara M. Yokley, '98, a Pforzheimer resident who said her friend was assaulted at gun point last year in Cambridge Commons, said it's a matter of common sense. "You have to be street-wise," she said. "They were out pretty late...
Egoyan, however, does not indulge in the potentially lurid nature of this subject matter. He chronicles the tale with a dispassionate, removed manner that subordinates the disturbing incest subplot to the larger story. Egoyan appears interested in broader themes than the dark underside of small towns, a theme long exhausted. The horror of The Sweet Hereafter comes from what characters are prepared to do, rather than what they actually accomplish...
...which links show business to American politics. The people want to be caught up in the swirling momentum of performances, Levinson implies--whether it is a big-budget alien movie or the Presidential speech on television, Americans want to be entertained. The two arenas of politics and Hollywood, no matter how opposed in fundamental purposes, end up reaching their ends by the same means...
...matter how ridiculous the concept seems, we realize by the end of Wag the Dog that delusion of the masses on a grand scale is a brutally realistic possibility. The media has the power to whip up an emotional whirlwind so powerful that all of America gets trapped in the show. It is the concept, after all, that makes the disaster movies which studio execs love so deplorably viable. Audiences are bludgeoned with an onslaught of nifty special effects and pounded into submission. Who is to say politics is not the same...
...letter to Lessig filed with the court yesterday, Richard J. Urowsky, counsel to Microsoft, wrote, "It is difficult to see how you can in good conscience preside over further proceedings in this matter." Lessig may find that hard to argue...