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...there's a common thread to these disparate works, it's their intimacy. Jericho, for instance, gives us doomsday as soap opera. The postapocalyptic tales of the cold war--On the Beach, A Canticle for Leibowitz, The Day After, Threads--were books and movies that had conclusions; a TV series is open-ended, like life. Jericho doles out its horror in doses--flickering TV images of ruined cities, radiation victims dead by a lake--and softens it with soap-opera B-plots. The survivors have affairs and family fights; teenagers flirt and throw parties. Chicago may be burning, but somewhere...
...you’ve always wanted to tell someone: I’m not big on sharing. I stick to social niceties and repress the rest. Favorite childhood toy: My Uzi, full sized, 9mm sub-machine gun. Best part about Harvard: NO PARENTS!!!!!!!! Worst part about Harvard: The low thread-count sheets at Stillman. How you got your name: It was my grandmother’s. She’s dead now. Thanks a lot. Describe yourself in three words: Made In Vagina. In 15 minutes you are: Starting my Saturday early. In 15 years you are: Graduating. With honors...
John F. “Jack” Pararas ’08 added to the online thread yesterday...
Lucy W. Baird ’10 isn’t even twenty yet, but she’s a pro when it comes to working with needles and thread. She started by altering clothes with her mother’s instruction, then she moved on to making costumes for high school plays. But making a dress in 24 hours with only 24 bucks? Even this fair-haired fashionista hasn’t done that...
...particularly like the way you let the thread interrupt the white,” Bhabha said to Frommer. “The inspiration was my unfortunate future, which is probably working in an investment bank,” explained Frommer. “This is for day and night...