Word: less
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...independent films who haven't been bastardized by glossy films. We could then move the money to the visuals. We just wanted to make it entertaining, so we said, let's have some fun. We could take more chances with this type of budget. The bigger the budget, the less risks the studio is willing to take. More money usually means more people telling you how to spend it, making it into something they recognize. Too much money means you just throw money at all the problems in the movie-you end up trying to find the story...
...same way. Instead, the current Senior Gift lumps together all the donations and hands them over to the College, giving students no control over how their donations are used. Undoubtedly the money will be used to benefit future students and improve the College, but students may be less than gratified to learn their money went towards re-wallpapering the Core Office instead of decreasing class size...
...Less than an hour after the PSLM protesters left Mass Hall, administrators clustered in the building to discuss the demonstration. The group included Ryan, Riley, Associate Dean of the College David P. Illingworth '71 and Executive Assistant to the President Beverly B. Sullivan. Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine, who was on the second floor of Mass Hall during the protest, did not attend the meeting...
...Best Actor egregiously leaves out Jim Carrey's performance in Man on the Moon in favor of Sean Penn in Woody Allen's Sweet and Lowdown, an omission that stings slightly less than if they had nominated Tom Hanks for The Green Mile. (Totally random diversion, here. Tom Hanks is a poor actor. Why does everyone insist he's God? Did anyone see The Burbs? How about Joe vs. the Volcano? Just because he cried in Philadelphia, slurred his speech in Forrest Gump and lowered his volume in Saving Private Ryan doesn't mean he's Brando. Come...
...Frum seems to hate the '70s, but at the same time, to regard the decade as a necessary social shaking-out. He says the decade "left behind a country that was more dynamic, more competitive, more tolerant, less deferential, less self-confident, less united, more socially equal, less economically equal, more expressive, more risk-averse, more sexual, less literate, less polite, less reticent...