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...nice on my CUE guides. I don’t know if it’s the eternal optimist in me saying that the class could have always been worse, but I never skewer the bad classes I take, or at least not in quite the way I intend to before faced with bubbles to fill.Looking at the nine-page “Senior Survey,” a CUE guide for the entire Harvard experience, I promised myself I would be more objective. I would complain about all the minor annoyances and real aggravations that marred my time...
...Chris Klein, and the storyline is set for a stunning finale. What makes this movie so fun to watch is that Weitz can’t help feeling for all the “bad guys” he criticizes and for the American culture he wants to skewer. His President Bush is a likeable moron; his terrorist characters are portrayed in the same comical way that we are used to seeing murderous Mafioses portrayed in movies. Many audience members may not quite be ready for the loving jokiness Weitz displays towards his terrorist characters, and perhaps understandably...
...producers trimmed its runtime by a half hour and tapped outspoken comedian Chris Rock to give the program some much needed “edge.” To the delight of viewers—and the horror of many stars—Rock used the hosting gig to skewer Hollywood egos and lampoon the self-importance of the entertainment industry. But his barbs may have been a little too incisive—he was not invited back...
...former deputy editorial chair, plans to bring her Midwest flare to the brutal brick walls of Harvard. Putting her tendency to overanalyze to good use, she will dissect the minutiae of Harvard life in “The Back Yard.” She expects to wittily skewer the painfully obvious on alternate Tuesdays...
...sympathetic to the press. Indeed, the Supreme Court has reversed Kaufman before in this case, when the judge ruled in 1977 that libel plaintiffs do not have the right to probe a journalist's thoughts. Whether Colonel Herbert's controversial case will finally prove to be a sword to skewer the press or a shield to protect it remains to be seen...