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'Pathology' seeks to desensitize audience, fetishize death

By John Ternovski | April 24, 2008

Courtesy of RottenTomatoes.com There was something deeply unsettling about leaving the theater after watching the horror film "Pathology" (2008). It wasn't simply the brutal, gruesome, and largely sociopathic ending, but rather the entire endeavor, which managed to be one of the most stoic pieces of misanthropy that I have ever seen on film.

Christa Parravani's images, now on display at the Hopkins Center, are based on Masters'
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Literature influences superb work of visiting photographer

By Rahul Malik | April 22, 2008

Courtesy of Christa Parravani Even in the mornings, when the line at the Hopkins Center's Courtyard Cafe is long and tunnel-vision towards that breakfast sandwich seems impenetrable, Dartmouth students have been taking note of the arresting photographs that adorn the wall along the Upper Jewett Exhibition Corridor.

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Underdog tops again with 'Marshall'

By Allison Ruderman | April 21, 2008

Courtesy of RottenTomatoes.com Since Judd Apatow and company have become the tastemakers of contemporary comedy, audiences across the nation are going to have to endure the sight of a lot of flaccid penises.

The Qawwali Masters, a musical group from Pakistan, eat dinner with students after a show in Brace Commons.
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Off the stage, international artists interact with students

April 16, 2008

Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Visitors to Brace Commons in the East Wheelock Cluster on Monday night saw a merging of two worlds as the Pakistani Qawwali Masters met the Shaker Singers for an open demonstration to community members and students.

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'Finding the Doorbell' rings true with humor, honesty

By Matthew Ritger | April 15, 2008

Courtesy of bn.com A year ago, Cindy Pierce read aloud to me from the rough draft of the introduction to her book: "I am probably one of the few women to have her first orgasm in a college library bathroom stall, by herself and by mistake." We were sitting at the cafe in the Hopkins Center with her co-author, Edie Thys Morgan.

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Carnivorous vines lead to 'Ruin' with horrifying gravity

By John Ternovski | April 9, 2008

Four friends travel to Mexico for "fun in the sun," but when they go exploring an old Mayan ruin they get much more than they bargained for: "Carnivorous vines try to ensnare the friends in their deadly tendrils, forcing the group into a brutal battle for survival," reads one synopsis of "The Ruins" (2008). No, I'm not kidding.

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'Black Womanhood' opens at Hood

By Lisa Moon | April 8, 2008

With the issue of racial identity common fodder for the increasingly politically minded and socially conscious avant-garde movements since the mid-'60s, the theme of "Black Womanhood" has long established itself in the rhetoric of the art world.

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Political parodies cause controversy

By Allison Ruderman | April 7, 2008

For the first time since Justin Timberlake regifted what his mother gave him, Saturday Night Live is in the news. In a presidential debate last month, Hillary Clinton brought up SNL sketches that satirized overt Obama favoritism in the media, and all the blogs got to chattering.

Students flock to the Roman forum at the foot of the Capitoline to admire the Arch of Septimius Severus and other ancient art.
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When in Rome: 'Shmob Mentality in the Ancient City

By Hilary Becker | April 7, 2008

Carly Silverman Editor's Note: This is the first installment of a biweekly column on the art and culture of Rome by Hilary Becker, who is spending Spring term on the art history Foreign Study Program. Sitting uncomfortably in the coach seat of my Continental flight, I was gawking across the aisle at some bambina sandwiched cozily between her parents.

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