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...elements create an uplifting, resounding musical landscape. However, it would seem that in their attempts to detach themselves from their old shtick of bouncing house music, the group have left behind a little of the infectious melodies that made them famous. But the impressive—and at times touching??musical flourishes on “Black Light” are well deserving of praise...
...It’s a beautiful, bittersweet story. In its simplicity, it’s more touching??a play about the dynamics between a somewhat overbearing but loving mother and her son and daughter, and their interaction with the appearance of the much-awaited gentleman caller,” director Megan E. O’Keefe ’11 says. “Their problems, when reduced, are just about meeting expectations and failing those expectations. And that is similar...
...exercises a system of control over women’s bodies. Positioning the self against an inassimilable (female) other, the eye serves as an explicit instrument of objectification and mastery. As feminist Luce Irigaray theorizes, the supremacy of looking over all other sensory experiences—hearing, smelling, tasting, touching??has effected an impoverishment of bodily relations. Deflated to the two-dimensional surface—the film, the television screen, the billboard, the magazine advertisement—the female body has lost its material weight: thus abstracted, it has become an object that can be bound, gagged...
...even characters, but because of the cliché elements that permeate all three. It takes what could be an original, stimulating premise and bogs it down with sappy banalities, becoming a mediocre version of every other self-aware teenage movie ever made. In one of the final ostensibly touching??but really just ridiculous—scenes, our protagonist tearfully tells Principal Gardner, “I’m just a kid; I’m just a stupid kid.” For once, Charlie Bartlett, your psychoanalysis rings true...
...song, written when the Prime Minister of Egypt visited Israeli soil for the first time, has become an emblem in Israel for hope of the real possibility of peace. It was also a fitting—and touching??end to a concert organized by a student group dedicated to open-mindedness and intercultural dialogue...