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...hone the message. In North Korea, photographers are severely restricted, and journalists use their limited access to poke tentatively at big issues like nuclear weapons, famines and economic reform. But Delisle, through the simple use of charcoal, ink and dialogue bubbles, captures aspects of life in North Korea that tend to elude observers in other media. Like light. Due to severe electrical shortages, Pyongyang makes do with dim lightbulbs and minimal streetlights. That's tough to capture in photographs, for example, save perhaps for satellite images that have shown North Korea as a (literally) benighted nation. But Delisle uses drawings...
...falls to his knees. Without swearing or physical violence, the actor expresses, with understated poignancy, his turmoil, angst, and overwhelmed loneliness. Likewise, Michal Bat Sheva Rand’s depiction of Malli seems an easy embodiment of hearty womanhood. In this fable-esque movie, however, the characters do naturally tend towards archetypes. While this effectively spreads the film’s overarching religious themes—forgiveness and faith—it prevents the audience from wholly identifying with the two-dimensional Orthodox characters. The director’s blatant stereotyping of the “bad?...
...what I had imagined this mystical Bell Tower would be before entering, but I assume that as I stood in line I intended to enter a big open space with lots of attractive young people dancing to some good music and generally making fools of themselves, as college students tend to do on a typical Friday night...
...representatives will be giving out “Winter Season Survival Kits” in dining halls today and tomorrow during lunch and dinner, in hope of staving off what they say is one of the top five reasons for weak academic performance. “Colds and flus tend to rank in the top five impediments to academic performance for college students,” said Keli M. Ballinger, CHI supervisor and manager of the Center for Wellness and Health Communication. “We really wanted to make sure we got information out there about cold...
...partisan organizations such as the Dems or Harvard College Republicans, said Sarah L. Paiji ’06, co-president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Association. Individual participation of minority students is also a concern for political organizations such as the Dems, students said, pointing out that they tend to be predominantly white and male. Abdallah said before the meeting that this lack of diversity was a continuing concern for the Dems. “Are we recruiting [minority students] because they’re individuals? Or because they’re a member of a community...