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...point at which camp and Harvard interesect most explicitly is the Freshman Outdoors Program (FOP). “FOP is definitely summer-campish,” FOP Leader Samuel B. Smolley ’05 says. FOPpers play games like the strangely named Ground Squirrel, which is “probably the only time you’ll hear a Harvard student say ‘shake that bushy tail.’ All dignity goes out the window and it’s a good thing.” FOP Leader Natasha M. Pasternack ’03 agrees...

Author: By V.e. Hyland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Salute Your DHAs | 4/17/2003 | See Source »

Using her powers. Ten Dorp (Jodie Barrett) predicts the play's murders, but her warnings are ignored because she has a slightly imperfect gift. (She predicts the arrival of Anderson's typewriter as a small Black man named Smith Corolla.) Barrett's broad campish delivery relieves the tension of some of the murders. Delivering the play's best exit line, she exclaims. "Ach, my daughter, she is pregnant, after all those years of trying she has finally made me a grandmother. I must go tell...

Author: By John F. Baughman, | Title: Mind Games | 11/9/1983 | See Source »

...baron Basil Rathbone could say to rebel Errol Flynn, "You speak treason!"; to which Flynn could add: "Fluently." What creative rapport could Hollywood establish with twelfth-century England or Italian buccaneers? All they could do was film the material as excitingly as they could, and spice it up with Campish or currently idiomatic dialogue...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Movies The Last Valley at the Gary | 2/22/1971 | See Source »

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