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...years—he obsessively collects thousands of objects that Füsun has touched, or that remind him of her. Cigarette stubs bearing the impress of her mouth or traces of her lipstick, a saltshaker she’d once happened to use—all find a place in his room to be arranged as a “museum of innocence” for his beloved...
...real” Pamuk blur to the point of indistinguishability—all three men come to seem interchangeable with each other, as well as with any of the narrators in Pamuk’s other books. These tiny, invisible connections unspool gradually to spin out a place both intricate and familiar, the nostalgia-saturated inverse of the fast-paced modern city: turning the first few pages of the “Innocence” feels like nothing more than coming home...
...primary organizer of the panel. “I’ve learned so much from HRDC, but there is no one here who will sit you down and tell you how to make a career in theater.” Because there is not a formal system in place for putting alumni in touch with recent grads, Stone has been working with the Harvard Alumni Association to compile a database of HRDC alums. The list includes professionals extending beyond actors and directors to set designers and light technicians. The panel consisted of recent alums with first-hand knowledge...
...urban one, too; the film takes place in the heart of New York City’s bustling Greenwich Village. Despite the fact that most young families reside in suburban or rural areas, Dieckmann and Thurman were determined to capture the unique challenges of raising a child in the city. “The urban environment makes a mother’s challenges more hyperbolic,” Dieckmann explains. Thurman, too, appreciated the film’s treatment of the difficulties encountered when starting a family in a metropolis. “The urban environment is actively antagonistic...
...carrot to others; depending on where you stand on the issue of health-care reform, the label is code for cuts or a promise to root out fraud and save billions. But far away from the debates in Washington, a group of expatriate baby boomers point to one place they believe real Medicare savings could be realized: Mexico...