Entries by Daily Trojan Staff

Foreign film depicts an honest, intimate portrait of family life

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F. Scott Fitzgerald once famously said, “Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.” Still Walking, the new film by the modern Japanese master Hirokazu Kore-eda, is about just that kind of wound, the sort that […]

The wait is over: Game day is here

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The famine is over. I don’t know how you survived, but you made it. The new dawn tomorrow brings a day that you’ve all been waiting eight months for — a day that seemed so far off in April, you wished you could just fall asleep and wake up on Sept. 5. Tomorrow, that insatiable […]

Tarantino once again proves maverick status

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Quentin Tarantino is such a punk. Against all reason, Inglourious Basterds might just be cinema’s final word on World War II and the Holocaust. And, Tarantino is a punk for making it that way. Without giving too much away by suggestion, the much-discussed ending of his highly stylized, spaghetti Western influenced movie explosively rewrites history. […]

Ethanol’s potential far outweighed by drawbacks

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Far away from the abundance of sloppy food that is EVK and the diner’s delight that is Parkside, the world is experiencing a hunger crisis. According to the World Bank, although food prices have fallen from their peak in 2008, major grain prices remain high. Maize is 50 percent more expensive than its average price […]

Court of law doles out wrist slaps to celebs

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It’s a strange place, that Hollyweird. Whatever name you prefer — Tinseltown, Lala Land, the Thirty-Mile-Zone — there’s no denying the uniqueness of this one California city. It is a place where fantasy fights reality and, more often than not, wins. The fantasy can vary, but make no mistake about it, only an elite inner […]