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...Ph.D candidate in psychology and the study’s co-author. “Determining if someone has agency dictates if we hold them accountable for their actions.” Participants in the survey were asked to rank fictional characters based on what they believed the characters?? capacities were for sensations like rage and desire as well as their abilities to exercise self-control and thought. For example, one question asked respondents to evaluate whether a five-year-old girl would be more or less likely to feel pain when compared to a chimpanzee. The study...
While students gather tonight in front of common room televisions to watch medical residents on ABC’s “Grey’s Anatomy” sleeping around, a new Harvard study casts doubt on whether the characters?? real-life counterparts are sleeping much at all. Charles A. Czeisler ’74, the Baldino professor of sleep medicine, has coauthored a report published this week in the Public Library of Science Medicine that highlights the adverse effects of extended-duration shifts on residents working in hospitals. According to the report, residents who work just...
...Bobby” is written and directed by Emilio Estevez, an avowed Kennedy admirer who previously adapted the script for 1985’s “That Was Then… This Is Now.” It follows a handful of archetypal 1960s characters??the hippie druggie, the angry black protestor, the hopeful political junkies, the child war bride, and the impressionable youth—as they live their lives on a normal day inside L.A.’s Ambassador Hotel. Their otherwise unremarkable day coincides with the 1968 assassination of presidential hopeful Robert...
Alternating between first person and third person omniscient narration, Sharp vividly renders the inner lives of both 20th century legends—Balanchine and his muse Suzanne Farrell, Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev, among others—and her own fictive characters??primarily figured as members of the real NYCB or American Ballet Theater (ABT). She lends an aura of verisimilitude to her readers’ vicarious participation in the lived experience of dance...
...famous cardiothoracic surgeon—has been reduced to a striptease here and a few lies there.Such a television show is no longer a legitimate drama; it’s coy pornography. The show’s affliction runs deep in its third season, in which its characters?? relationships are bought with sexual currency.Such sexual leverage facilitates relationships in “Seinfeld” as well—when Jerry presses George to explain why he stopped seeing a woman just because she beat him at chess, he says, “I don?...