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...involvement with the Harvard Dramatic Club, he says, "helped me understand the literature of the theater, if not the screen," though he was an "avid moviegoer" during his Harvard days as well...
...famously avid reader of self-help books, and it shows when he says things like "The Magellan within all of us is going to save us." It's a reference not to mutual funds but to the Portuguese explorer, by way of The Truman Show, which Carrey likes to see as an allegory about self-actualization: "It's a hopeful story. It's about a man who will not be beaten. Presented with a challenge, he becomes the explorer he always wanted to be. In my best scenario, I want to turn out to be Truman Burbank. I want...
...opposite sex, have combined to make Dave one of the most respected cadets in the corps," was the assessment of West Point's 1967 yearbook, The Howitzer. He earned a Purple Heart and a Silver Star in Vietnam, and was regarded as a good and affable officer. An avid hunter, Hale insisted that his troops--and their spouses--call him Dave, even when he was wearing his uniform with the pair of stars on each shoulder...
Rebecca J. Lowenhaupt '99, who is directing this weekend's production of Shakespeare's "The Tempest," says that performing on the steps of Memorial Church helps draw an avid crowd of curious onlookers...
...sure, not even the most avid defender of radiocarbon dating would deny that at least one mystery continues to surround the shroud: How did the image of a man, plainly crucified and preternaturally finely rendered, get on it in the first place? Were the image not allegedly Christ's, the matter would be relegated to obscure academic journals on Byzantine textile technology. As things stand, however, the conundrum of origin and the slim chance that the scientific dating may have been rigged (not likely) or flawed (a better possibility) are being employed by die-hard shroudies to shore up their...