Rob Buerki



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The Current Cinema: The Rebirth of Tragedy

Randall Smith, Rob Buerki

Social Climbing — Feb 5, 2004

Jennifer Connelly has become incredibly good at portraying women whose lives are swirling round and around on the verge of going completely down the toilet. In fact, she won an Oscar for A Beautiful Mind playing such a character and should have won one for her role in Requiem for a Dream, too.

How to Become Political

Rob Buerki

The Politics Issue — Feb 19, 2004

Realize the President has done something that makes you angry. Very angry. Read what a lot of other angry people have written, mostly from websites and blogs. Quickly formulate your own voice and opinions.

J.M. Coetzee’s Newest Book Revealed!

Rob Buerki

Wanna Bum me a Cigarette — Feb 26, 2004

In perhaps the greatest scoop of the year, specialists with the Nassau Weekly Department of Literary Espionage discovered an advance copy of J.M. Coetzee’s newest work in the men’s room stall of “The Mother of All Bathrooms” on the 300 level of Frist over intersession break. Coetzee ...

Selling Spaces

Rob Buerki

Course Offerings — Apr 1, 2004

In the profile of Miuccia Prada that appeared in last week’s New Yorker, Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas deconstructs and theorizes upon the nature of shopping. "Shopping," he says, "used to be an autonomous entity with its own metabolism, but over the past twenty years it has infiltrated almost every activity known to man..."

Watching Movies with… David Brundige

Jacob Savage, Rob Buerki

Beer Inflation — Apr 22, 2004

Senior David Brundige has written and directed two hit shows at Princeton, “Bums and Monkeys” (2003), and “PigTails” (2004). He has won awards for his writing, been jetted out to Hollywood to meet with studio executives, and has had many beautiful women beg him for roles in his future films.

Reduce, Re-use, Recycle

Rob Buerki

Fristification — Apr 29, 2004

The Nass asks Frist administrators why some of the campus center's recyclables have been going into the trash.

The Battle of McCormick Hill

Rob Buerki

The Nass Top 100 — Sep 16, 2004

Perceptive students returning last week might have noticed something new in front of the University Art Museum; the three rows of super-sized bronzed figurines, headless and armless, in regimental formation were installed over the summer. These large outdoor sculptures, titled “Big Figures” (there are twenty in all), occupy what was ...

Bicentennial Brother

Rob Buerki

Winter Literary Issue — Dec 2, 2004

David demarcated his territory on the waiting room chairs with assorted belongings: here a pencil, here a pair of sunglasses, here a pillow in a blue terrycloth sleeve...