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...when they arise, we're more likely to live long enough to pass on our genes. But evolutionary rewards also come to those who stand and fight, those willing to take risks--and even suffer injury--in pursuit of prey or a mate. Our ancestors hunted mastodons and stampeded buffalo, risking getting trampled for the possible payoff of meat and pelt. Males advertised their reproductive fitness by fighting other males, willingly engaging in a contest that could mean death for one and offspring for the other...
...Impossible to pin down or pigeonhole, as full of contradictions as his movies, Altman became a specialist in both two movie forms: epic and the intimate. Nashville, a Doomsday kaleidoscope set to country music, splashed the whole South with his wily cynicism; Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson said that American history was a lie dressed up in showbiz frills; and A Wedding, his black spray-paint on a four-tier nuptial cake, contained 48 characters, for no better reason than that Nashville had had 24. But there was a quieter, artsier side to Altman...
...Heartbreak Heidi” (Heidi E. Kim ’09), “The Ching Chow Constrictor,” “B-Ravenous,” and “The Earth Smother,” the contest was ironically reminiscent of a hot dog or buffalo wing-eating contest. Said contestant “Miss Mary Smack” of Allston: “I am an eating machine.” Cheering her on was her roller derby team, garbed in matching red and white mesh tank tops. “Smack” refused...
...added, “Since then we’ve been pretty much unstoppable.” Despite being arguably less athletically gifted than the 2006 squad, new defensive schemes, a revised training regimen, and improved team discipline have lifted the rugby club to upset victories over Buffalo and Boston College. “Last year we had a gifted team,” coach Robert J. Karetsky said. “As coaches we didn’t understand some parts of coaching defense. As coaches we needed to learn.” But this year Harvard is frequently...
...theater world. That isn’t necessarily a bad thing. “A Chorus Line” trades heavily in stereotypes, the performance of Michael L. Vinson ’07 as a flamboyant homosexual who disdains his small-town origins (“committing suicide in Buffalo would be redundant”) to Emerson senior Anna Haas’ cold, over-sexed valium user.These caricatures are too endearing to be offensive, though, and they’re frequently fun. In a few instances, cast members transcend their own roles to great comic effect.Kevin Barlowski, a senior...