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Twice that year, I bring Harvard people back to Waldorf with me—said boyfriend and a friend with whom I feel especially close—and walk the halls determinedly, sure that those walls, sponge-painted in eggshell blue, can explain something. I show up in childish defiance of the dress code: bare midriff and shoulders, blue jeans. I talk too fast and accept the embraces and kisses of the teachers who watched me grow up. Am I happy at Harvard? I’m blissful...
...Despite its dismal threads of crushed self-esteem, anxiety and loneliness, "One Hundred Demons" is one of the prettiest books I have seen. Barry has a charming, appropriately childish cartooning style that belies the amount of work she must put into each page. Bright watercolors fill in the brush lines and each vignette gets a carefully collaged title page, often containing artifacts from the story thereafter. Even when you close the book, the colored pages create a rainbow around the edge. Perfect for comix novices, the easy-to-read layout has just two big panels on each wide page. Barry...
...later. But Kate is a grownup, sharp and observant yet wise and sentimental, something Bridget can never be. Feminists may hate the fact that Kate quits her job after deciding that you can't have it all. But, by the way, it's not male or female but merely childish to think otherwise. Pearson says she has sackfuls of mail from women who reject what they have seen in the boardroom. "Who wants to sit at ludicrous meetings in some testosterone jungle," Pearson asks, "and think of our children as problems to be handled?" She didn't make Kate...
...William K. Weaver ’98-’03 was reminded of elementary school when Karen H. Lincoln ’05 told him how much she hated Jake Q. Wiley ’05 while Wiley gave her the finger. But there was nothing childish about the way the two started sucking face 45 minutes later on the sidewalk in front of Eliot...
...Madame-Bovary-hits-the-strip-mall tale The Good Girl, White gives the misunderstood-author type another twist, making Jake Gyllenhaal's Holden both a genuinely tortured soul and a childish poseur. It's that tension--between satire and empathy, pathos and bathos--that gives White's scripts their characteristic discomfiting humor. "Most comedies are so insubstantial that I come out feeling kind of empty," says White. "I feel it's sad to leave all the great themes of drama to the dramatists." White's upcoming movie, The School of Rock (starring Jack Black), is likewise a comedy...