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...writing about my roommates for two reasons. First reason: I’ve got new ones this year. Because of my ’06-’07 status, I had previously lived with a group of ’06ers and now I’ve been compelled to find a new family. The two sets of roommates could not be more dissimilar. Second reason: in the same way that my mom used to silence my complaints of not having “cool” parents with the old “you’re stuck...
...cliche move in these situations is “Oooh! I’m gonna go capture the other team’s mascot!” Lame! What we did was go and capture the mascots of all the high schools that Yalies attended. As we write this column, we’ve got 400 teens in bobcat costumes over in an Allston warehouse, and you can catch all of their barely legal furry action in a forthcoming adult feature...
...hope we will write a program that will not depend on the image of a city on a hill,” Fisher said...
...Brooks had gone to Rochester at the urging of James Card, head of the George Eastman House film division, where she busied herself in research on silent films. It was there she found a second career, writing memoir-essays on her early days. These trenchant pieces, on Chaplin and W. C. Fields, Gish and Garbo, and of course Pabst and Pandora's Box, were collected in the volume Lulu in Hollywood, and proved Brooks a stranger creature than the moguls could imagine: a beauty with a brain. The flapper could write...
...disrupting the traffic between donors and museums. That's in part because it requires a museum to take possession of a piece of donated art within 10 years, not merely for a specific number of days each year, as under the present arrangement. And now donors' write-offs are limited to a painting's market value at the time the original gift was given, not its appreciated value. That may end up being a significant disincentive for giving. While the law's intent is to prevent donors from reaping tax breaks on art that isn't often seen...