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What: This year, Leverett House takes you on its annual trip to the 80s??but sloooowly. Be sure to head over early to one of those vaguely punk/retro stores in the Garage, and find yourself some legwarmers and a headband. Have your prefrosh drape her sweater around her shoulders and you’ll be all set to ease your way back into the last few decades of incredible music...
...Newman-Plotnick ’11, a VES concentrator who also traveled to Los Angeles. He said he may use the connections established on the trip to help him find an internship this summer. Today, $40 in annual dues to Harvardwood unveils myriad potential connections, but in the mid-80s??when the current generation of Hollywood executives and producers moved to Hollywood after graduation—few previous alums had established themselves in the industry. The Harvard diploma meant little more than the absence of a film degree. “When I first came out here...
...McKibben’s talk at the Divinity School yesterday afternoon said the gravity of the situation inspired them to engage with the cause.A 2005 graduate of the Divinity School, Brent G. Was, said this is the “first time since the early ’80s?? that he is uneasy about the future. As a result, he said he will “definitely get more involved” in spreading the message about climate change, such as working with his church on the North Shore to ring its bell 350 times...
...mind quickly turns to the ugly realities that emerged as silly catchphrases and smiling baby teeth faded into adolescence and adulthood. The list of successes becomes a list of bloody defeats.First and foremost, take River Phoenix. Discovered by Burton, he was a child star in the mid-80s??you may remember him as Young Indy in “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.” In 1993, at age 23, River died of a heroine and cocaine overdose outside of a club on the Sunset Strip called the “Viper Room...
While sharing a cab with one of the heads of Dean Witter, Gardner solves the biggest puzzle of the 80s??the Rubik’s cube—and scores the internship. But with no steady income, he and his son go from a shabby apartment to a shabbier hotel to an all-out homeless shelter, and times become really, well, unhappy. Not to worry, though. There’s no question as to how this one ends...