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...DIED. SHIN SANG OK, 80, South Korean film director whose life story became the stuff of spy thrillers when he and his movie-star wife were kidnapped by North Korean agents in 1978; in Seoul. One of the South's most prominent directors in the 1960s and '70s?his 1958 film Jiokhwa featured the country's first on-screen kiss?Shin and wife Choi Eun Hee were abducted because North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il, a movie buff, wanted to boost his country's film industry. Shin and Choi made a dozen movies at Kim's behest before staging...
...austere character type, transforming into second-rate country singer Yolanda Johnson on set of the final broadcast of Garrison Keillor’s live radio variety show.“My character’s supposed to be a kind of a half-assed singer, so the mistakes were ok,” Streep says at a press conference at Brookline’s Coolidge Corner Theatre, hours before receiving the Coolidge award. “That’s how I rationalized it, anyway.” According to Altman, those off-key imperfections color the film...
...students: that to take up ballroom dancing is the easiest way for them to shake off the carapaces of their street-hardened attitude and discover the social uses of discipline, civility, subtlety. And if they think of dancing as orchestrated sex, as screwing in three-quarter time, that's OK too. It's a way of finding freedom of movement and expression within what might seem the constriction of tradition. Isn't that the best definition of work, marriage, maturity? These kids are learning the graces they'll need in their life after high school, as an escape hatch from...
...swam OK, but not as well as I had hoped,” Rathgeber said. “I’m used to racing hard at night and lighter in the morning, but this time I didn’t race that well in the morning and didn’t make it to the finals at night. It was disappointing, but I’m hoping to get back next year...
...graduate.”Those activists cite other schools which have moved faster as examples for Harvard to follow. “The precedent has been set by other universities and we’re just lagging behind—having finals after winter break, that’s ok. It’s fine to say we’re different and unique in a certain way. But this is just not OK,” says MK Eagle ’06, the BGLTSA’s community chair.Other universities have transitioned to more trans-friendly policies...