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...Again, I agree that fast food may be bad straight down the line: for the cattle, the factory workers, the kids behind the counter and the people addicted to them. (Though in France the burgers sure taste better.) But I don't go to films only to have my prejudices reinforced; I'd like to see a story with surprising vectors, characters who are more than caricatures, a sense of vitality or elegance in the visual style. The Linklater Fast Food Nation has none of this. Why, it's so lifeless, it almost makes The Da Vinci Code seem like...
...heart on Reserve...for you. 6) I’m hopped up on Adderall, but I’d like to hop up on you. 7) You’ve got a nice tan, for someone who’s been indoors for nine days straight. 8) Shakespeare, eh? Before they met me, they were just the Content Wives of Windsor. 9) You know, when you leave the library, the guard will ask why you’ve stolen my heart. 10) I’m checking you out, can I get your call number? 11) You?...
...certainly one of the glories of Harvard that individual faculty members have the talent and enthusiasm to teach unique courses, not canned or straight from a textbook. But it does not follow that our teaching should be a solitary pursuit, in the same “each-tub-on-its-own-bottom” style that complicates so much of Harvard’s administration. Rather, professors should think of teaching as a cooperative activity, involving students, graduate assistants, faculty colleagues and administrators. We need more collective responsibility and institutional memory in our teaching. We do not need more individual...
Tuesday's Tony Award nominations were, as usual, a mixed bag for me. The Drowsy Chaperone, which I liked along with most of the critics, garnered the most nominations among the musicals - 13. But the two straight plays that drew the most nods - The History Boys, with 8, and the revival of Clifford Odets' Awake and Sing, with 9 - left me cold. For my own picks of six new Broadway shows that are worth a visit, see this week's magazine. (Add one more play that I touted earlier - Festen, the grueling and gripping family drama from London that...
...fires a soccer ball off the 4-in. crossbar. Before the ball touches the ground, he corrals the rebound on his chest, juggles the ball with his feet and repeats the feat three more times. It's the soccer equivalent of hitting four straight half-court hook shots in basketball or knocking four pitches off the top of the right-field scoreboard in baseball. Just...