Word: checker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more engaging mix of substance and flash than any other musical so far this dismal season. Goodman's adaptation, quite faithful to the novel, follows Jamie (nameless in the book though called Jamie in the 1988 movie starring Michael J. Fox) from his dreary job as a fact checker for a snooty, New Yorker-style magazine through his debauched, drug-addled all-nighters on the New York club circuit. It fleshes out, via flashbacks, his fashion-model ex-wife, with whom he's still obsessed, and his mother, whose death a year earlier he still hasn't come to terms...
...world of celebrity in Glamorama really is inescapable, not just because Victor is too shallow to comprehend anything beyond it, but because everything--from the public spheres of politics and religion to the private sphere of sex--is part of this world. The plot twists more often than Chubby Checker on speed. Reality alternates with the constructed so often that the constructed becomes real: "everything is altered... everyone will believe this". Even the novel itself borrows Jay McInerney's Alison Poole character (from McInerney's Story of My Life...
...Harvard, Winthrop House, the sister house to Davenport College, Jovin's residence, is creating a book to give to her family and to the masters and students of Davenport. The book will be at the checker's desk in the dining hall until Sunday. Students are encouraged to sign their condolences...
Though the resident who organized the event said it was designed to promote "community feeling," some residents, and the dining hall checker, said the event embarrassed them...
Malka S. Resnicoff '00 and a group of other House residents loudly struck the dining hall's gong each time a non-resident approached the checker's desk during lunch yesterday. The protesters then added a mark to their tally of non-residents entering the dining hall...