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...fluid which came sailing down the stone staircase of Mower B as I arrived,” says Zobel’s first-year roommate John Cooke Dowd ’53-’90. “It did provide me with a somewhat less than usually banal introduction to life as a Harvard undergraduate...
Still, the Yankees make it easy to be a fan. And I wasn’t ready to give up being on the side of the winners. But after this year’s arrogance led to a banal post-season, I became a little more hesitant about feeling the Bronx Bomber love. Then George Steinbrenner made it clear that he would be back to boss Joe Torre around in the bullpen, which has historically meant the demise of the Yankees. The corporate nature of the team was becoming even more sickening, especially after the multi-million dollar cablevision deal...
...Producers. And that's just the first half. In Act Two Jerry goes to hell to counsel the ultimate dysfunctional family - Satan, Jesus and God - and is forced to confront his own role in people's lives. "We end with a message of peace and unity as glib, banal and yet utterly sincere as the TV show itself," says Lee. Legal problems with the producers of the real Jerry Springer Show look unlikely, since the man himself came to see a workshop production in Edinburgh last summer. "I only wish," he told the anxious writers, "I'd thought...
...people to pay more to shave? That's the eternal question in the $6-billion razor business. Hair grows at the same rate year in and year out, and there are few activities more banal than shaving. But the Big Three razormakers - America's Gillette and Schick and France's Bic - have all come up with a cheeky answer; the very same cheeky answer. And so, after years of relatively peaceful coexistence, competition among them is about to become cutthroat. The three firms have jostled for shelf space for three decades, but in the past they relied on different marketing...
...begin with (four small stories above grade, one below). Harvard’s current plan to placate dissenters is a gallery (possibly containing rare books from the library collection) that would take up 16 percent of the usable ground floor area. I honestly cannot think of anything more banal...