Word: angela
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from the Internet to television. Justin B. Wood '98 observes, "It's advertising, looking for shock value. We're so numb to advertising now, they need something with shock value." Shocking indeed. The Dancing Baby attracts the attention of even the most distracted viewers with its unnatural gyrations. As Angela L. Kung '99 suggests, "People like the strange, the new." Reflecting on the broader implications of the Dancing Baby, Jimmy S. Lee '99 adds, "It's all about transcending the limits of societal constraints...
...course, the movies started driving toward all this long before the Clintons came along. In Frank Capra's 1948 State of the Union, Spencer Tracy plays a straight-talking businessman having an affair with Angela Lansbury. A newspaper magnate and political kingmaker, Lansbury decides to push Tracy into a presidential run. That means getting his estranged wife, played by Katharine Hepburn, to agree to act the contented spouse on the campaign trail...
...feminine. She falls in all the right places. She endears herself to U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard (Tommy Lee Jones '69) with her charming ignorance of U.S. laws against lying to federal agents, and she knows when to let her man go. The real reason for the change? Perhaps Angela Bassett could mop the floor with him, beat him until people that loved him wouldn't know him. But these are ridiculous statements to make about a movie that's based on something as untrue and trite as good triumphing over evil. That's Grimm alright. This movie is about...
...miss out if you didn't check out some of the St. Patty's Day celebration. Just for starters, Ireland's most mainstream and highly-acclaimed traditional music group The Chieftans will be performing at Symphony Hall tonight. On the theatre front, look for Pulitzer winner Frank McCourt (of Angela's Ashes fame) and his hit play The Irish... And How They Got That Way and for brand-new Copley Theatre's A Portrait of Oscar Wilde. And every pub--every pub!--has something planned. If nothing else, just go downtown. (And don't forget to wear green...
...heartening to be reminded that Harvard students are people, too. Thank you for being my guardian angels today. I was truly touched by your kindness. ANGELA C. WALCH '98 March...