Word: caste
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...monopoly on Harvard's social life. Anyone is free to start a coed final club, and might even receive significant University support for their efforts. Other student enterprises are supported for their single-sex policies-few people suggest bringing women into groups such as the Hasty Pudding Theatrical cast, for example, in part because keeping the group all-male adds to the comedy of its productions. (This argument could be made in favor of final clubs, although, unlike the Theatricals, the clubs' attempts to make themselves the butt of campus humor appear purely inadvertent...
Margolies-Mezvinsky, who cast the vote that saved Clinton's first budget from defeat in the House, said she knew her seat was "on loan...
...sense to trim down the play, and revivals ever since have gone along with these changes. But the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players have chosen to override these changes and restore Ruddigore to its original clunky form. They do a disservice to their own efforts and their talented cast by turning a potentially entertaining theatrical event into a tiresome muddle...
Gladstone leaps up from the floor to do a limp, hostile jig while the entire cast sings cheerfully, "Isn't it something when the waiter's dead...
...perpetually caustic Robert Altman is based on the director's mingling with the top dogs of haute couture -- designers, models, financiers et al. -- during one of the big pret-a-porter ("ready-to-wear") shows in Paris last spring. Using the movie's incredibly disparate and big-name cast -- ranging from Stephen Rea to Sophia Loren to Danny Aiello -- Altman goes after the glamour society's pretensions and pointlessness. But, saysTIME Movie Critic Richard Corliss, Pret-a-Porter "is a high concept poorly executed."Post your opinion on theArts & Culturebulletin board...