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...films, but also partly by a desire to thumb their noses at movie studio executives who claim to know what audiences want. As Ebert said during a post-film discussion, reacting to a suggestion that a studio didn't think one of the festival's 12 selected titles would appeal to the youth market: "We cannot be held captive to a bunch of illiterate 16-year-olds...
...handful of signature events to promote class and College unity in other ways. Specifically, we hope that the board will work with and cultivate student coalitions—such as the Junior Class Commission which planned the Junior High Dance—seeking to organize social events with wide appeal. The Yard, Annenberg, and soon the Loker Pub, are all large venues, and there are few good reasons why they should not be used with frequency for class-wide meals, College-wide parties, and general get-togethers in the spirit of Yardfest—bringing a fragmented campus together more...
...group, he says, has been enhanced by actors who “started to realize how fun it was to have kids rather than jaded Cambridge intellectuals” in the audience. And it seems “A Tale of Two Cities” might have enough goofy appeal to turn a jaded Cambridge intellectual into a sated Cambridge intellectual—and a giggling one at that...
...most interesting feature of these groups, I think, is one that also offers a hint at why they’re spreading so quickly: it’s what they do for us. Social networks appeal to our deep-rooted desire for belonging. They allow us to seek out people who are like we are and in doing so make the world, which appears bigger and bigger every day, a bit more manageable. We’re able to find out that there are Yankee fans in Boston (and Red Sox fans in New York, lest I be mugged...
...successful book about the American Revolution is no mystery. Choose a Founding Father--Washington, Hamilton, Adams--venerate him for a few hundred pages, and in no time you're on the best-seller list. O.K., it's not that simple, but you get the picture. Patriotic content equals readership appeal...