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...persuade Kelly and his starchy father (Eddie Albert) that he's the right guy for her. The movie echoes The Graduate, directed by Nichols, which set up a tawdry situation involving a sexually ambitious young man, then asked for sympathy for the guy because... because he's the main character. May used her gifted actors as creatures who were constantly forfeiting, then winning back, the audience's affections. She created a gritty-looking comedy with a Cassavetesian sense of improvisation that wants to underline life's messiness...
...microphones and transparent, moving arms, allow audience members to accompany Newell in what he calls “Hippie Karaoke.”A white, bearded, male puppet known as “Uncle Scam” adorns the tip box and a smaller puppet face attached to the main puppet is known as “Nostrildamus”—“the only working booger in America today,” according to Newell.“I know, it’s a little bit strange,” says Newell through the puppet...
...read The Crimson for some time now, but cannot recall reading an article as arrogant, opaque, and simply wrongheaded as Adaner Usmani’s “Against Leadership” (oped, Oct. 4). Cloaked in prolix academic phraseology, his main point, as best as my feeble mind can grasp it, seems to be that smart people shouldn’t act as such, or shouldn’t have their opinions count, or should actively ignore their own opinions and, instead, agree to abide by the opinions of less-intelligent, less educated, and less successful people...
...polls and ahead in fund-raising, Giuliani is proving steadier and more resilient than many GOP veterans expected. While Giuliani raised $10 million and has $16 million on hand, Romney's quiet self-subsidy of more than $8 million means that he too will have the money for the main event of the Republican race this fall and winter: the head to head bash-a-thon in which the two men accuse the other on the stump and in paid advertising of being soft on abortion, gay marriage, immigration, stem cells, taxes and spending, and the war on terror...
...Dane's grasp of climate science seems shaky at best. The polar bear is far from O.K.: the U.S. Geological Survey reported last month that two-thirds of the population will disappear by 2050 because of shrinking sea ice. But his main argument is still worth considering. Lomborg believes that it would be far too costly to reduce global carbon emissions enough to actually cool the climate. Since warming is coming no matter what we do and poor countries will suffer the most from it, we should instead direct scarce resources to helping those nations adapt to climate change. That...