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...employee looked at me and then at the security guard. Meanwhile I was furiously showing my change into my wallet, fumbling because I was so agitated. "Man, you have to stop staring at the customers!" The guard played off the comment as if the employee were clueless. Are brush-offs somehow not a universal language...
...solicitation" by orthodox Jews. Yet others felt there wasn't enough coverage of certain sports like golf or squash, of events happening on weekends because The Crimson doesn't publish on Saturday and Sunday, or of student group activities. These are certainly more fundamental concerns, less easy to brush aside. And then there were some that veered into the realm of the holistically uncomplimentary, the vitriolic and the profane. I received the following: "I never read The Crimson," "It's cheesy and juvenile," and, most succinctly, "It sucks...
...There's Gale, who ridicules Freundlich's melodramatic pauses but turns down an on-air spot with another network because it is not as dedicated to journalism as he is. And there's Mona (Catherine Lloyd Burns), McKenzie's personal assistant, so toadying that she wears a lint brush around her neck...
...comic style an anti-Hollywood bias. We film-makers realize our community is a gorgeous subject for satire. We grant, or anyway most of us do, that we are the world's funniest people. You can write more jokes about us than you can about plumbers, undertakers or Fuller brush salesmen. Hollywood is guilty of deliberate withdrawal from the living world. It seeks to entertain, and we suspect that the success of the withdrawal is what makes Hollywood funny. But let TIME Magazine view with alarm or point with pride, but not laugh off Hollywood's growing recognition...
...slender seats are comfortable for only the sveltest Sox fans, and tickets are often hard to come by, especially in the summer, and especially for games against the hated Yankees. The wise spectator learned long ago to take the T, and the rich one learned he might have to brush up against the commoners...