Word: amateurism
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...amateur rappers filled Ticknor Lounge with insults and epithets on Saturday as they faced off in Outwit, a freestyle rap competition. The event pitted the rappers against one another in three-minute matchups during which the competitors rapped over a beat played by Darius P. Felton ’08, a.k.a. DJ Radius. The competition was sponsored by Tuesday Magazine and The Darker Side, a weekend music program on WHRB, Harvard’s student-run radio station. The rapping mostly consisted of personal insults. “This is ‘Bennie Els,’ I play...
...about it, except for the new major motion picture, “In the Land of Women,” starring Meg Ryan and the O.C.’s Adam Brody. Don’t get too optimistic about this young writer, whose meager talent shot him from amateur TV writing to star-studded film writing fame too soon. Kasdan’s screenwriting and directorial debut is nothing to applaud.“In the Land of Women” is largely derivative of every other mother-daughter relationship film you’ve seen. Despite the trailer?...
...champion swimmer Jessica Long, 15, born without bones in her legs, was a double amputee. Following a 2006 season in which she won nine gold medals in world competition, she became the first Paralympian to win the Sullivan Award, given annually since 1930 to the nation's top amateur athlete. The recreational rock climber said, "To represent all the other Paralympic athletes ... is so cool...
...Infante, who looked like a cross between William Holden with a mustache and the young Eli Wallace in Baby Doll, was a man's man: a carpenter by trade and an amateur boxer for pleasure. (A grueling fight, as bloody and intense as anything in Raging Bull, serves as the climax to his 1953 Pepe el Toro.) He was a fanatic about his workout regimen. In a time when Hollywood movies rarely revealed much of their male stars below the collar, Pedro went topless in nearly every film, displaying the bulky muscularity he was so proud of. You could count...
Maybe my favorite thing about the HRG&SP is that they’ve never taken themselves too seriously, preferring instead to embody the best sense of the term “amateur,” which originates from the Latin word for one who loves. The cast and crew of “Utopia, Limited” clearly love what they’ve made...