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Indeed, the inside jokes and the conviviality of the production speak for its intimate appeal to its audience. A credo emerges that seems to say, "Our music might be bland and our acting may not be stellar, but we still think we're some of the most important people of our generation." The show's program lists the setting as an obscure Eastern law school, but the fact that it takes place at Harvard has a lot to do with this attitude. The vast majority of the people in this country only know Harvard as the Law School...
What shows up in the Crimson each day--despite an elaborate system of editing and proofreading--is often very raw; the product of panic and deadlines, hurried phone calls and illegible notes. It is sometimes bad, usually pretty bland, but occasionally very good and once in a while it manages to be very very good. There is something for just about everyone in this book, though it is unfortunately short on politics, the subject which has driven Crimson editors to many of their best pieces over the years. It won't really tell you what The Crimson is all about...
Shrinking Man worked well as a parable of mankind's impotence and heroism in the atomic age. Slowly and irrevocably, the bland hero withdraws into his Sanforized shirt, moves into his child's dollhouse, tumbles into the cellar and slays a now giant spider with a straight pin. At the end, when he escapes into the star-speckled night, he is so small he almost disappears into the universe. Microcosm and macro cosm are one. He has conquered his des tiny by surrendering...
...Micnael Cimino presented his "contemporary" epic of men at war--in this case, the Vietnam War--and, initially, it received universally enthusiastic reviews. Most critics ignored the film's contrived, overdone script and Cimino's bland direction, and praised The Deer Hunter for its emotional power. But, after having their tears jerked and their guts wrenched for three poorly-paced hours, many viewers recognized The Deer Hunter as a thoroughly racist, reactionary depiction of America's involvement in Vietnam. Cimino claimed he had set out to show what the war was really like. Instead, he made a hollow, melodramatic adventure...
Peter Sellers, 54, peerless English master of mirth, a man of many faces who slipped easily into parts as diverse as the crazed Dr. Strangelove, the bumbling Inspector Clouseau of Pink Panther fame and the brilliantly bland gardener turned presidential adviser in Being There...