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...think of politics in quite these terms -- Eisenhower, surely, would not have appreciated being bound up in a flip essay with Aromavision (Clinton probably doesn't either, but one imagines he's grown used to this sort of thing). Thirty-odd years of expecting Presidents to be adept television performers and 30-odd years of Presidents' playing to that expectation -- the catch in Reagan's voice, the tug on Clinton's lip -- have chipped away at our notions of intimacy, dignity and content, leaving behind a fat appetite for sheer spectacle. Not always by design, the Clinton Administration...
Possible future projects include a film about the life of Hart Crane and a movie version of his Harvard thesis ("Wuthering Heights," the pop opera). Undoubtedly, his success will continue, for, in the precise, insightful words of Brandon Fraser, star of "With Honors": "Alek's adept at telling the story; he has--I mean I admire this quality in his work, which is the capacity of technically telling the story by knowing where to put the camera. That's a skill that's, that's, it's not usually learned in terms of the physical talent, whatever that...
Early in the semester I told your reporter that most of my students were receiving grades in the A-/B+range. contrary to The Crimson's assertion I did not predict that this would be the ultimate disposition of the grades. Harvard Undergraduates are relative. adept at writing two page response papers and--thanks, no doubt, to the Expository Writing Program--most students in my section have acquired this skill. But the real trick is to demonstrate a comprehensive grasp of the course material...
...Collins, TIME's newly appointed arts and media editor, is a journalist acutely adept at eyeing and analyzing trends. But in the late '80s he himself became part of a significant one. Like other disaffected Wall Streeters of the ) era, Collins, who holds an M.B.A. from Columbia University, left his job at a New York investment bank in search of something more fulfilling. Thankfully, it was not the simple life that he sought...
This sort of ruthless competition between universities is nothing new; certainly Harvard is very adept at grabbing prestigious professors from other institutions...