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...sections this semester, and we’ve been working on assignments together for a couple of weeks, sometimes over coffee. I’d like to ask her out for real sometime, but I’m afraid she’ll just see it as a casual get-together. How can I make it clear that I’m interested in her without saying it too directly...
...weekends, Harvard’s student body is as fashionable as it’s ever been with garb that contrasts markedly with students’ casual wear in class and in dining halls. Suffice it to say that we have long ago forsaken the grey smock and matching bonnet of the 17th century, but just what kind of people are we to be so well-attired these days? This past weekend, I pushed myself to come down from Mather Tower, the concrete structure incongruously named after the notable Puritan, and took to the streets in search of an answer...
...Congressman is having some people over and wanted me to invite you. Really casual - bring whoever you want." The Congressman was Mark Foley, at the time an obscure second-term Florida Republican. The invitation was extended to a friend of mine who, like me, was covering Capitol Hill for Roll Call. The extender was Kirk Fordham, then an aide to Foley, and the event was an impromptu springtime evening barbeque a decade...
...expensive, cowardly straightjacket of a video turns the epileptic Lil’ Wayne and his soul-infused partner Robin Thicke (“he strapped”) into… a tenant in a yuppie apartment complex. In no way does this video fit the song. Where is the casual violence? The chaos? The attack on everything and anything civilized? Where is the condensed 100-year musical history of the South? Nowhere to be found. I expected bodies on the floor and uncontrollable balling on a legendary scale. I expected an unstoppable force of screen-pimping that would...
...near future, Bujalski’s films are likely to find a limited audience of cinephiles. And indeed, Bujalski’s influences—as noted by film critics—include John Cassevetes, Jean-Luc Godard, Eric Rohmer: brilliant artists whose work is largely unnoticed by the casual filmgoer.But obscurity is not what Bujalski intends: “My biggest fear at the moment is that my films might be elitist, which I never intended them to be, and I don’t ultimately think that they are,” he says. Indeed, as important...