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Roberts owes his business training to the rugby club. Since rugby is not an official Harvard sport, the club's council must manage finances, schedule matches, and provide all sorts of supplies to the team. The president's job ranges from planning an overseas trip every year to provisioning beer for each Thursday's "drink-up and sing-song," But to Roberts, the rugby team is more important as a center of character-building through "concentrated enjoyment" among the nearly 100 players...
...these last few days in Cambridge trying to remember the right choices that went into my four years here a fascinating class on American architecture, dozens of Crimsons escapades, sitting in a burnt orange Gran Torino in the middle of Mattapan at three in the morning drinking Budweiser beer out of bar bottles with two non-Harvard buddies from 'Milton. That last memory may not seem very educational, productive, or frankly, important. But it is mine. It is part of what I alone chose to do here-it is part of the "82" after my name that represents both...
...Poltergeist is the suburban family, as normal and American as Pop-Tarts. In Poltergeist, Dad (Craig T. Nelson), late 30s, sells tract houses, reads biographies of Ronald Reagan and furrows his brow to watch his hairline recede. Mom (Jobeth Williams), early 30s, keeps house, sings TV beer jingles and tucks in her son under a Star Wars bedspread. If this seems the derisory stuff of sitcoms, it is not. "I never mock suburbia," Spielberg declares. "My life comes from there." He likes these people and communicates that affection. Faced with balky children or a restless preternatural presence, the parents demonstrate...
...speak. E.T. is remarkably adaptable and wonderfully funny in his adventure on earth. Left alone in the house, he toddles around like a middle-aged ironworker on a weekend without the wife, his potbelly peeking out of a plaid bathrobe as he watches TV and gets drunk on Coors beer. Later still, he is a holy sage, a whiz-kid Yoda, constructing a transmitter out of spare parts to signal his spaceship. And he has an extra gift for children. If the moment is propitious, and they truly believe, E.T. can make them fly away from danger and into...
...modern reporter right to confine his travels to a retracing of Tocqueville's journey in the older and possibly more fatigued half of the U.S.? Louisville, for instance, seemed to Reeves drained of all local character (and, ignominiously, of its local Falls City beer, now produced elsewhere). Louisville was "just a place where a few hundred thousand Americans happen to live at the moment." Could he have said that about Dallas or Seattle? And would even the worn and scuffed Eastern cities have seemed fresh and strong if Reeves, like Tocqueville, had been a foreign observer...