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As I commute across town for work every day, I protectively clutch my latest book as the bus rattles me back and forth. Still, an almost strange and funny sense of purposefulness persists, even if I’m only one page further by the time I arrive. I am...
HIGH NOON. Part of the Brattle’s “Films of the ’50s” series, High Noon (1952) is a classic Western justice film directed by Fred Zinnemann. Marshall Will Kane (Gary Cooper) is ready to retire and leave town to spend the...
Outside, the aspiring mob members read and commit their instructions to memory. They are to head toward the greeting-card section of the Coop along a route of their choosing. Whatever their path, however, they must arrive at exactly 7:13 p.m.
I’ve gotten the schedule down to a science. Get on a Chinatown bus early on Friday afternoon—exhausted after the few hours I’ve spent working at the offices of Harvard Magazine (on top of an endless production night preparing The Crimson for...
One afternoon a doorman surreptitiously slipped my mother a note saying that our superintendent—who was supposedly setting off the next week to visit a dying brother in Yugoslavia—was actually going away to serve a prison sentence. Some searching on the Department of Justice?...