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...cinema in its glory days. Then there were the boulevard comedies, like La Cage aux Folles and Three Men and a Baby, that got remade by Hollywood. After that they retreated into austerity, into the perfunctory embrace of minimalism. And now... well, frankly, now French films are hardly a blip on Americans' cultural radar, so remote from our concerns that we didn't even realize we were ignoring them...
...Interstate Highway System sprawl across the continent like some outsized Rorschach pattern. These multi-laned, guard-rail-clad corridors by now seem timeless, like pre-Cambrian mountains bolted to the landscape. So it's hard to believe that America's freeway system turns 50 this summer - a chronological blip on the tectonic plates too slight for a spectrometer, but in the life of our republic, a golden anniversary...
...while the Bantams’ dominance was to be expected, the loss to the Tigers put a slight blip on an otherwise clean Ivy slate...
Many have pointed out that Harvard’s sale of stock is a mere blip in the stock’s overall price and claim that it will have little effect on the profitability of others’ investments in Sinopec. Instead, they argue, Harvard’s action is only symbolic. Harvard, however, has attracted media attention to the genocide, and its PetroChina divestment set a precedent followed by a number of other institutions, including Amherst College, Yale University, Stanford University, and recently the entire University of California system. Furthermore, the University’s profiting from slaughter...
...don’t have a problem with opt-in co-ed housing, that young men and women might live together in the same dorm room. Co-ed housing is but a minor blip in the unstoppable progressive march to further realms of modernity. And, as a practical matter, it’s already been widely implemented by live-in couples, with the hushed complicity of a University that has largely abrogated its role as a stand-in for absent parents.What bothers me about the issue is not co-ed housing but the inflated rhetoric and sense of entitlement employed...