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Alas, these examples, as marketable as they may be, betray the sheer ordinariness of invention at Harvard. Gone are the days of the house regattas, those races on the Charles aboard heaps of junk blessed with more House spirit than seaworthiness. As for feats like putting a car atop University Hall--best leave that to the folks down the River...
...Alas, these examples, as marketable as they may be, betray the sheer ordinariness of invention at Harvard. Gone are the days of the house regattas, those races on the Charles aboard heaps of junk blessed with more House spirit than seaworthiness. As for feats like putting a car atop University Hall--best leave that to the folks down the River...
...everyday speech does little to enhance her words. Although she completely penetrates and bursts the peephole perspective of sexual resentment and idealistic angst, her from seems to lag behind. It is clear but uninspiring; perhaps beautiful but not in a way that fits. Allusive and chronically understated, her images betray a lingering strain of bitterness. True, Gluck does not embrace the world without mediation, but her style feels like an homage to an emptiness that doesn't befit a poet who believes "true happiness" can occur "within this deception...
When Starr talks about Bill Clinton, a hint of envy creeps into his voice, and his words betray a lifelong preoccupation with resume, intellect and reputation. As a young man fresh out of Sam Houston High School in San Antonio, Texas, Starr spent two years at Harding College in Arkansas and eventually came to realize that he and this charismatic Clinton fellow had moved along the same track to Washington--except that Clinton was always ahead. Clinton was at Georgetown when Starr was at George Washington University; Clinton was a Senate aide when Starr was a House aide; Clinton landed...
...documentary style, sending a message to the audience that this is "real." The directors of the "documentary" even become part of the film when they begin playing Dick and Tallent against each other. Things get confusing, however, when McDonald uses cinematic slow-motion sequences and other styles which betray the intended reality. This is best illustrated in the scene where the band members trip on LSD. The discontinuity between the previous, documentary style and this hallucinatory, Easy Rider-inspired sequence renders it ineffective and actively takes away from the rest of the film...