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...longer have any incentive to eat in a dining hall when the daily menu doesn’t appeal to us. There are both physical and psychological benefits to having a good, fulfilling lunch and dinner every day; a tasty meal can do wonders for one’s mood. And although Harvard Square already has a decent number of moderately-priced restaurants, unleashing thousands of hungry undergraduates would create new demand for cheap, college-friendly joints; in addition to adding to the array of dining options for all local residents, this new market could be a powerful force against...
...which he fights. These transparent aspirations infuse the movie with a sense of a proffering, as if the director was seeking approval. Hoblit, however, does have a mastery of subtlety; a persistent lack of brightness in the film and continual use of dirty white against dark set the mood and pace for the audience. Hoblit, whose previous work includes the more impressive Frequency, seems to be a very deliberate director and gives the impression that you are seeing exactly and only what he intends...
...seemed to me, along with 30 other stories of hers, to have complete freshness of mood and novelty in combination of tones and levels of reality,” Fisher says. Budnitz says many professors like Fisher use her stories as examples for young writers. “I hope that by including a set of stories by younger writers, I can put in front of students some of the kinds of work they might find interesting in their own generation,” Fisher says. Budnitz’s surrealistic story contrasts with Fisher regulars like the daunting Faulkner...
When the Nazis occupied the city, the party was over. The grim mood of the times is reflected in paintings like Jean Dubuffet's Building Fa?ades of 1946, where graffiti-like scratches are clawed into a thick black surface, and in sculpture like the Swiss Alberto Giacometti's attenuated and isolated figures. Death's heads entered Picasso's work. Playwright Antonin Artaud spent the war in mental hospitals undergoing electroshock therapy. His Self-Portrait of 1947 almost destroys its flimsy paper with savage pencil lines. It's in a private collection, so here is a rare chance to see this...
Crisis is averted and the once-belligerent trooper’s mood mellows, perhaps as the prospect of a racial profiling suit enters his mind. A moment later, the trooper returns to the Mercedes—with the straight dope from Jesse that we are to take the car once around the block...