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...seen the signs on campus for Metamorphosen--"Music Will Transform You." Last Friday, the new string orchestra founded by Scott Yoo '93 gave its first performance at the New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall. While most of the participants kept their regular shapes, they were treated to an evening of sometimes extraordinary music...
That is the story. (Tarantino wrote everything except the Butch episode, which was created by the director's occasional collaborator, Roger Avary.) But it is presented out of chronology, so as to alternate fierce melodrama with behavioral comedy, and vengeance with revelation. Tarantino pulls the string around one story while setting up the next in the bustling background. He played neat tricks of a similar sort in Reservoir Dogs. "It's not like I'm on this major crusade against linear narrative," he says. "What I am against is saying it's the only game in town...
...some yardsticks, Dr. Peter Breggin seems to be a successful -- perhaps even influential -- psychiatrist. He has earned impressive academic credentials, published a string of books and shown up on Today and The Oprah Winfrey Show. Many patients rave about the doctor. "He's a wonderful person," says one satisfied customer. "He cares so much about his clients. He gave me the will to get better...
Unfortunately, for most Harvard students the chance to experience the instantaneous union of fluorescent felt and synthetic string comes far too infrequently...
Although a string of black rectangles doesn't necessarily whet the artistic appetite, Cohn's system abtic exploration of different uses of black gives a decidedly fresh perspective on its immense cultural significance...