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...true subject of all these movies is the innocence of the obsessional ego, the ability of people caught in the grips of an idea they think is grand (and everyone else thinks is stupid) to drive everything else out of their heads as they pursue their goofy dreams. Mainly they do this without raising their voices, without pitching fits, without showing the slightest evidence that they are lacking in what the rest of us are pleased to call normalcy. Take Harry Shearer's Victor Allan Miller. He's played Shakespeare (albeit in repertory's more obscure regions), but his fame...
...fifteen years, the Fox Club threw an annual Boxer Rebellion party, named after violent efforts by Chinese rebels in 1900 to drive Westerners out of China and to protect Chinese authority in the country. The parties, ostensibly in support of the Chinese rebels—who were quickly and humiliatingly crushed by united Japanese, American, and European forces—involved drinking heavily and, of course, wearing boxers. The point of the event was to skip over the time-consuming process of disrobing and start the night in bedroom apparel, the better to expedite a roll...
...operation, Matthews is in constant contact with her staff via cell phone and text messages. Class-time is no exception.Matthews’ roommate Samere A. Reid ’08 and friend Katharine A. Woodman-Maynard ’08 have expressed amazement at Matthews’ drive, as has the magazine’s editorial manager, Tony Rotunno, a sophomore at Boston University.“The process really matures you,” Rotunno says. “Sometimes you don’t think you have a real job. We don’t have...
...Gangsta Bop.” Singing over a laid-back parody of every G-Unit beat, Akon starts out with a broken flow, giving the half line “you die quicker” room to sink in before he quietly says “Paramedics drive back slow to this hospital / You get pronounced dead before the hospital.” Whether they’re flamboyantly immoral or wanting redemption, Akon’s characters always find themselves failing. Akon sings from inside a jail cell on “Tired of Runnin?...
Demetri said yesterday that the grants are significant because they afford scientists a relatively high degree of freedom.“We have the option to drive the focus of the research,” Demetri said. He said he is most interested in developing new cancer drugs and targeting “signaling pathways that go awry” in cancer patients...