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...landscape-artists has been unleashed; like Stravinsky, they aspire to create a magnum opus of the season's rituals. With ardor, with bags of dirt, they have already begun to transform the Yard from a relatively pleasant, serene meadow into a confusion of cordons, chemical grass simulacra and bare patches of earth hideous to behold. Harvard subsists on tradition: the Yard is made repellent each spring and this one is no different. Why bother, one is compelled to wonder. Why go to all the time and expense for a lawn destined for a life so nasty, brutish and short...
Here's the bottom line: if you're in the mood for a (relatively) mindless actioner--light on story and loaded with gratuitous camera shots of Catherine Zeta-Jones's bare back--then this is the film you're looking for. Hey, who needs drama and philosophy on a Friday night...
...Stiles has carefully sculpted platinum blond hair. He's also ripped. Really, really, ripped. This guy's chest is broader than my current seed of a thesis topic, and he's just itching to bare all. He steps up to the mike...
...many worlds, where humans interact with other intergalactic species, it just makes sense that live action should consort with puppeteering (Yoda is still voiced and manipulated by Frank Oz) and digital auteurism. So, yes, there must be real actors. It takes a real actor to stand on a bare stage and pretend it's the gigantic Galactic Senate, or to have an argument with an invisible junkman. And it takes a trusting actor to endure the secrecy attending a Star Wars production...
...worry, Harvard does have parties, at least on the weekend. Extracurricular groups and House committees plan dances (ranging from the tragically lame Bare as You Dare to the pleasantly lame Leverett '80s Dance). The calendar is sprinkled with formals, especially in the spring--look for the Eliot House Fete, which features chocolate-covered strawberries and swing dancing...