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page 4 features January 00 The homicidal Mr. Ripley will gameau When practiced, certain activities can be elevated to the level of art. And in Patricia Highsmith’s book, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Tom Ripley has achieved this level of expertise in the art of dissembling. With her adroit handling of psy chology, Highsmith has created a world of double meaning and intrigue, which draws the reader into this superb book. The story begins with the efforts of Herbert Greenleaf to bring his son back from Italy. In order to bring this about he con tacts Tom Ripley, an old acquaintance of his son’s. Ripley (Matt Damon) who had been liv ing the life of a destitute con man agrees to the plan. There is a minor di lemma though. The son, Dickie, has hd iriteritibH df returning to the states. While Highsmith’s prose is strong through out the novel, it is her de scriptions of her characters that really shine. She describes Mr. Greenleaf’s idea of Tom Ripley:” ...he was intelli gent, level-headed, scru pulously honest, and very willing to do a favour. It was a slight error.” Her delicately restrained voice is particularly acute dur ing the interaetions be tween Dickie and Tom. Highsmith achieves this by employing swift, de clarative sentences, which tend to subtly de velop the story’s atmo sphere. It is this quality of writing that distin guishes Patricia Highsmith from the rest of the multitude of hack criminal writers. And it is also the themes of her works that accurately rep resent her caliber of writ ing. One of Highsmith’s central themes is that man only barely suppresses his sadism. In her master piece, Strangers on a Train, Highsmith treats the same topic: how close we are to the brink of de stroying one another. In The Talented Mr. Ripley, the reader is faced with the same unpleasant idea: civi lization is only a facade, a thin veneer that barely covers over humanity’s inherent anarchism. Highsmith uses Tom Ripley to expose just how sordid this modem man is when released from society’s restraints. Tom’s primary per version is impersonation. Highsmith seems to in tend that all Tom desires in life is the approval of others’. It’s this mania that draws Tom into his sinister relation to Diekie Greenleaf When he ar rives in Mongibello, Dickie and Marge, the only other American, are dis dainful of Tom’s appear ance. But soon Tom’s charm wins Dickie over. Beginning with their friendship, Tom’s neurotic behavior begins to exhibit itself He begins to adopt Dickie’s mannerisms and style, going so far as to put bh Ditkie’S dlothes. He becomes, in mind and body, a doppelganger. A clue into Tom’s fascina tion with Dickie is his pu tative homosexuality, something Highsmith only treats in passing. When his fascina tion with Dickie trans mutes into homicide Tom is bound to continue his impersonation of Dickie. However Tom is easy with his new life for he had al ways been more at home when lying than telling the truth: “That had been the only time tonight when he had felt uncomfortable, unreal, the way he might have felt if he had been lying, yet it had been prac tically the only thing that he had said that was true.” It’s this psychologi cal aspect that defines the superior writers. And Patricia Highsmith, with her ability to describe the characters in her books so well, is also a master dra matic, who has filled The Talented Mr. Ripley with a steady stream of turns, and re-tums that is sure to occupy the reader com- pletely. In the end the reader is enthralled with Ripley; however, Highsmith leaves it until the finale to mete out his fate, adding a closing flourish to this beautiful and provocative book. Sifr till# '■ (Mi ■■’i I Microwavahle delights! When you’ve eaten in the cafeteria one too many times... shayerah ilias Tired of eating in the cafeteria? When NCSSM students have dined in the cafeteria one too many times, they turn to other food-sources. Students visit restau rants on Ninth Street and in Northgate Mall; they order in from places like Papa John’s; or, they get creative. Many students around campus are cooking their own food - and it’s not just Ramen that they are making. Students are making all sorts of concoctions. When you want to delve into the culinary arts, check out the following recipes used students on campus: Bagel Pizzas - Jessica McCoy, Jenny Saleeby, and Mela Johnson Ingredients: Package of crescent rolls, pizza sailce, and grated cheese Technology needed: Toaster oven / oven Recipe 1. Roll dough into crescent rolls. 2. Put crescent rolls on a toaster oven pan. 3. Spread pizza sauce on top of the crescent rolls. 4. Sprinkle grated cheese on top of the pizza sauce. 5. Bake crescent rolls in a toaster oven for fif teen minutes and enjoy. Mashed Potatoes - Jessica McCoy, Jenny Saleeby, and Mela Johnson Ingredients: 5 potatoes, 1/2 stick butter, 1/4 cup milk, a stick of cream cheese, a pack of chives Technology needed: Microwave Recipe 1. Wash potatoes and peel. 2. Cut potatoes into fourths. 3. Put chopped potatoes into a bowl and fill with water. 4. Boil potatoes in microwave and drain the wa ter. 5. Mash the potatoes 6. Mix mashed potatoes with the butter, milk, and cream cheese. 7. Sprinkle chives over the mashed potatoes and serve. Enjoy! Apple Turnovers - Erin Kimmel Ingredients: Biscuit dough, 1 apple, cinnamon, a little bit of butter Technology needed: Oven Recipe 1. Roll the dough into five “fist-size” balls. 2. Roll the dough balls out flat with a rolling pin. 3. Cut the apple into thin slices. 4. Put the apple slices in the centers of the flat tened dough balls. 5. Fold the dough over the apple slices. 6. Grease a pan. 7. Put the dough with apple slices in the pan. 8. Sprinkle cinnamon on top of the dough balls. 9. Fill the pan with water. 10. Bake at 350 degrees until surface is brown (water should have been absorbed and the dough balls have been meshed together). Enjoy! Quesdillas - Pieng Lee Ingredients: Tortilla bread and shredded cheese Technology needed: Toaster oven / oven Recipe 1. Sprinkle cheese all over the top of the tortilla bread. 2. 3. Enjoy! Fold the tortilla bread over the cheese. Cook in toaster oven until the cheese melts. Smores - Serena Liu Ingredients: 2 graham crackers, one big marshmellow, one section of a Hershey’s chocolate bar Technology needed: Microwave Recipe 1. Put chocolate bar on top of one of the graham crackers. 2. Put the marshmellow on top of the chocolate bar. 3. Put the second graham cracker on top of the marshmellow. 4. Microwave for fifteen seconds. Enjoy! B-Day p 1 SLI and male complex co ordinator Steve Goldberg, seeking to find out what went on. Evidently, many students were disturbed by what they saw with the belt and contacted their parents. In fact, some stu dents became reluctant to admit when their birthday was for fear of what their hall mates might do. This concern culminated into an email sent to all parents titled “Hazing in Dorms” by Gary Greenberg, chair of the parent counsel. This email lead many par ents to become concerned for the safety of their chil dren. “In my fourteen years at Science and Math, there have always been isolated incidents of this type of horseplay,” said Dr. Joan Barber, Di rector of Student Life. She concedes. though, that what some think is mere horseplay, others call hazing, and thus leading to a misun derstanding. Barber also notes that safety concerns arise as a student could slip and hit his head in the shower. “...With the type of students at Science and Math, there are many in novative and fun filled ways of building camara derie without hazing or endangering students,” said Barber. For now. Barber has ordered all SLIs who witness birthday beat- downs to report them to her so that she can handle them directly. Dore summed up the essence and inten tions of the beat-downs by saying he participates in them because, “I love the guy. I don’t do it to hurt him.”
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