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Since then, the national buzz surrounding the scandal has spawned a book, news specials, and most recently, a theatrical production under the working title of “The Harvard Project.” The play, which has already undergone three workshop performances at Manhattan’s East 13th Street Theater, chronicles the lives of Harvard students who were investigated and expelled for “homosexualism” during those clandestine proceedings...
...Phrenology,” Talib Kweli, “Grindhouse,” “No Country for Old Men,” a fake copy of The New York Times with the headline “Iraq War Ends.” There’s a book on the shelf called “Cinema Now.” We eat crackers and hummus while everyone winds down, and I look at the Clash’s “London Calling” poster, Paul Simonon smashing his guitar...
...show ’em it don’t pay to try to do you down...Factories sweat you to death, labour exchanges talk you to death, insurance and income tax offices milk money from your wage packets and rob you to death,” one book bluntly put it. Publicity materials for Osborne’s play invented a label for the group: they were to be referred to as the “Angry Young...
...belief that it’s the principle of standing on one’s own two feet that matters most. In the 1962 British New Wave (and Angry Young Men) classic “The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner,” based on the book by Alan Sillitoe, Colin Smith is a boy at reformatory whom the director’s primped to win a cross-country race against a nearby prep school. Coming down the last stretch, he’s got a solid lead; no one doubts he?...
...daring, Mission: Impossible-style sting operation in a bid to save the hostages. Colombian planners of the July 2008 operation were probably keen to avoid the fate of the earliest rescue attempt. The misadventures of that fiasco, along with the final rescue attempt, are detailed in a new book by veteran Latin America journalist John Otis, Law of the Jungle: The Hunt for Colombian Guerrillas, American Hostages and Buried Treasure. An excerpt follows...