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Anyone familiar with Durang’s work will know that he does not write for children. His best plays are good-naturedly wicked send-ups of life’s pain and absurdity. They mine comic gold from such unfunny topics as depression, divorce, alcoholism, and infant mortality (as in his “The Marriage of Bette and Boo,” which the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club produced this fall...
...best song on the CD is “Apologize,” which provides a taste of OneRepublic, whose debut album is set to drop in late 2007. They fall somewhere between The Fray and Coldplay, and, rumor has it, they want Timbaland as their next producer. Write it down—teamed up with Timbaland’s sound, they promise to be something big in the near future. “Timbaland Presents” is in the title for a reason. He has essentially provided his musical friends with a stage on which they can simultaneously...
Simon Rich ’06-’07 knows a great recipe for Brussel sprouts, loves Roald Dahl, and hates dogs. He is also modest.“I just sit down every day and just write a ton of stuff,” he says. “Most of it’s terrible. I don’t think I’m very funny in person.”Jon Stewart would beg to differ.Rich, former president of the Harvard Lampoon (which, due to a rivalry that even Rich doesn’t understand...
...identity for an uncertain length of time.” “None of that exists anymore,” another says of his past: “the words are more real than the actuality.” Bolaño literalizes his metaphors throughout: masturbatory writing means masturbating with one hand while writing with the other; a duel between Belano and a literary critic requires sabers; a dangerous pimp’s abnormally large penis is paralleled by his abnormally large knife. When García Madero has his first sexual experience with the beautiful Mar?...
...black person to try to understand the problems and struggles that may exist in the lives of white people. While white people should not get defensive about race to the point that they dismiss and overlook the racial inequalities that exist in our society, black people cannot write off the dilemmas that white people face in their lives as well. There are many white people who suffer from the ills of poverty and discrimination, and these issues must be confronted as well...