Word: busybodyness
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So Bedford Falls needs George Bailey. But the rest of us? Not so into him anymore. Don't get me wrong: I like Wonderful Life--the dance contest, the romance, the seductive mystery of Violet Bick. But isn't there something a little oppressive about it? To me, a former...
“UBS is one of the world’s leading investment banks,” a recent Crimson editorial informs its readers, “it manages assets worth well over $2 trillion.” And if those numbers do not render you speechless, another of...
As the annual Undergraduate Council (UC) presidential election approaches, well-rehearsed candidates—who, no doubt, have spent their entire college career preparing for this moment—circle campus, delivering platitudinous speeches about arcane bureaucratic details. All the while, the busybody pretend-politicians of the Harvard Republican Club...
OK, it's not much as premises go, but under Michael Lehman's relaxed but not inattentive direction, it'll do, especially as there are some nice little turns in the story. Johnny has an attractive father (Stephen Collins), who's capable of igniting a spark in Daphne, which at...
Misha is a stateless being, trapped between a fantasy America and a debased post-Soviet Russia ("a nation of busybody peasants thrust into an awkward modernity") that he regards with an Oedipal mixture of love and contempt. East and West play a hilarious game of Telephone in his head--he...