Word: cleverness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...free-thinking woman I was disgusted by an article straining to portray a developing discipline as a vapid political concession wrested from the establishment by shrews. And clever jibes at the new concentration--like writing women's thought as women's "thought"--fall short as cutting criticisms...
...choose and only the aforementioned actors and Mark Levine as another friend have the discipline to keep Davenport's flat characters from fading into the background. Like Davenport's direction, Jennifer Bucksbaum's pepless choreography might as well not be there at all. The occasionally good acting and sometimes clever songs cannot fill all the voids the make It's Really Me really unsatisfying...
Long before Coors even spoke, you ran an opinion piece by Matthew H. Joseph warning students against believing the "clever lies" the author insisted Mr. Coors would say. This week you ran a staff editorial (March 6) expressing pride that Harvard students had allowed Mr. Coors to have his way unmolested, as if it was an incredible, unprecedented gift to let the head of a major U.S. company exercise his right of free speech at Harvard. Thanking Harvard for allowing free speech is like thanking the University for supplying heat in the dorm rooms; both are fundamental, basic rights which...
What makes the one-act watchable is its clever organization. Divided into 15 short segments, What Time never gets bogged down in one particular scene. Ultimately, though, the script's stilted language and puzzling plot twists make it a poor match for Am I Blue...
...Quincy E-43, that philosophic snippet greets callers almost as often as one of the three residents does. This room is not alone. More and more students are creating a new art out of answering machines--the clever, pithy answering message...