Word: brightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Loker Commons was not designed for actual Harvard students but for imaginary twentysomethings, conjured in the minds of fiftysomething university administrators. "We ought to add something bright and digital," one can almost hear the anonymous Harvard technocrat announcing, with considerable pride, to a hip Cambridge architect. "Kids these days are so technologically oriented...
...minutes--romantic love can be messy, disappointing, and confusing, but it can also be exciting, rewarding, and uplifting. The problem is that LaChiusa doesn't quite know how to bring originality to the timeworn themes of love and sex. And whoever thought up the idea of shining an extraordinarily bright and unbelievably unflattering yellow spotlight on actors' faces as they are climaxing, sure didn't help...
Southerland's direction was interesting. He used flashes of bright white light and well-situated still action to show the passage of time, and the frantic, disturbing opening was well conceived. However, the constraints of the space and the lack of good tech clouded any conceptual clarity. Also helping to prevent a tight production were the actors, who fumbled their lines several times...
Yale and Columbia continue to struggle, though the Elis have had one bright spot this season. Junior Daniel Okonkwo is the league's second leading rebounder, averaging 8.7 boards per game and is among the leaders in steals as well, with 30 in 16 games. Otherwise, Yale has been atrocious on defense, surrendering a league high 70.9 points per contest...
...People look at the 'Net and see this nasty, filthy stuff. [But] any 12-year-old reasonably bright kid could round up porn for you in 30 seconds or less [off the 'Net]," said former Harvard Computer Society president John E. Stafford '96. "And as the people in Congress are...trying to apply old tools to new problems...