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Such distinctive sound design is only one example of the creativity that the play, a pastiche of excerpts from Bruno Schulz’s work, brings to its interpretation of the twentieth-century artist and writer...
...College physicians described as “awkward-ass Harvard kids.” Soon, Harvard attracted only nerds and geeks, while all the cool kids waited for state schools to be founded so they subsequently could attend those. Various factors contributed to the decline of fun in the twentieth century, including the decrease of off-campus social space, the lowering of the legal drinking age, the invention of Teflon, and the rise of readily available contraceptives. The UC party fund was a desperate measure for desperate times, and for a while succeeded in propping up the social lives...
...owned by TIME's parent company, Time Warner) arrive at the RAMCO offices for an exploratory meeting. Nearly all of the major Hollywood studios have been sniffing around Moscow recently, trying to figure out how and when to get involved in an industry with a potentially massive upside. Twentieth Century Fox, which purchased the international rights to the ethereal Russian vampire movies Night Watch and Day Watch, opened offices in Moscow last year. Paramount and Disney are kicking the tires. And Sony, through its Columbia Tristar division, joined with several American investors last year to form Monumental Pictures, which...
...Walt and Mearsheimer argue that previous American presidents, like Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower, were much more evenhanded in dealing with Israel and its Arab neighbors. Only as the power of the lobby grew throughout the second half of the twentieth century, they contend, did American support for Israel increase alongside...
...people from rural areas are on the move, in search of work and food, including across the border into Thailand. Many are now in desperate need of basic life-saving assistance, and yet per capita international aid to Burma (less than $3 a year per person) remains about a twentieth of what's provided to Cambodia, Laos or Vietnam...