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Streetscenes: Caricatures with pizazz by olympia
Cacky Calderon, Wharton freshman (left) "We waited in line the entire time for the caricature.... It was the two of us and also two of our good friends, and so she just put four of us on a page.
WOTS: Dead On Arrival
Note: Normally, this column is not so disturbing. However, this summer, I found a murdered man in Central Park and it's been messing up my head ever since.
BOOKS: A frank exposure
So as not to bore his audience, a journalist must have an extensive and complex vocabulary. To get you in the mood for this book, I offer you one word: Bildungsroman.
MOVIES: Hardball
You know everything that will happen in this movie: There will be hackneyed and racist portrayals of the Chicago slums; there will be a white ne'er-do-well who is forced to coach the Bad News Bears; he will inspire them; they will inspire him; some kid will die; the team will win the championship; and Keanu Reeves will seem about as dense as a cinderblock.
Nation On Alert, Bomb threat in Athens
Due to the devastating incidents of terrorism in New York City and Washington, the University's Tuesday classes have been cancelled as of noon today.
FOOD: Fine Cuban Cooking
Alma de Cuba's fa‡ade is painted a pale yellow, its name is displayed as nonchalantly as possible next to the imposing white door.
No nuts for you
Walking into the Four Seasons to meet with Jerry Zucker I am a little intimidated. This is a man who has had a hand in some of my all-time favorite films, Ghost, Airplane, My Best Friends Wedding--just to name a few.
FILM BRIEFS: A Love Divided
Whoever said all you need is love, forgot a few stipulations. All we really need is love, stability, and if you happen to be in Ireland in 1949, you should both probably be Catholic.
MOVIES: Lots of funny people
What would you do for a million dollars? How about 2 million? The ensemble comedic cast in Jerry Zucker's Rat Race doesn't have to answer that question until they are randomly picked by eccentric millionaire and owner of the Venetian casino in Las Vegas, Donald Sinclair, to be the contestants in a rat race, first one to a random gold rush town in New Mexico wins 2 million dollars. This is slapstick humor at its finest.
FILM BRIEFS: Greenfingers
I'm starting to think my mom would enjoy prison, as long as she gets sentenced to the country-club haven featured in Greenfingers.
MUSIC: Professional Murder Music
If Marilyn Manson and Orgy had a lovechild, it would be Professional Murder Music. The California quartet with a hip-hop name mixes electronic and nu-metal into a surprisingly polished sound on its self-titled Geffen records debut.
MOVIES: Welcome to the Jungle
It shouldn't have been difficult to be a better sequel than The Lost World, but somehow Jurassic Park 3 manages the feat. Its by-the-numbers script, increasingly obvious plot twists, and absolutely no good explanation of why Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill) would ever again get within a twenty mile radius of these terrible lizards, make Jurassic Park 3 a painful 85 minutes of tape. The third time around the special effects remain incredible, but less new and ambitious, since anyone would agree that tuning into the Discovery Channel for "When Dinosaurs Roamed America" was just as technologically sound and that plot, though little more than a nature video, was much more riveting. New monsters include the massive Spinosaurus, which at one point goes head to head with the Tyrannosaurus rex, and the swooping Pteranodons, which provide the film's few spine tingling moments. Critics can speculate that it is the lack of the Spielberg touch that makes this movie such a monstrosity, but the fallacy in their statements comes in the form of The Lost World.
Post Geek?
They've been called the post-grunge, post-alternative, post-modern phenomenom, but being post-everything has to make them the forerunner of something--Weezer just isn't exactly sure what that something is yet. "Maybe we're the classic rock of the future," muses guitarist Brian Bell, after more than a moment's hesitation.
Underground Sound
Bob Pollard isn't mainstream, and neither is the music of Guided by Voices (GBV) for that matter, but something about the band's recent song "Glad Girls" has caught the ears of the populace. "It's crazy," Pollard contends.
MOVIES: Prep School Secrets II
In Lost and Delirious, Mouse is a freshman assigned to live with two seniors when she arrives at her private boarding school.
MOVIES: Pretty women; funny men
If you were to lock some of the world's most talented and gifted actors into a room and instruct them to be funny for two hours, the results would be much like America's Sweethearts.
THEATER: The Philosophy of Life
Dog lovers will truly appreciate the Tapestry Theatre's most recent production, "Chesapeake," directed by Michele Travis.
DINING: This should be contraband
Travel agencies are already putting together glossy brochures luring tourists to the sandy white beaches of Cuba.
