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Wednesday’s meeting was the climax of a month of tension between Harvard and Allston residents. On top of discussions about proposals for an art museum, a science building, and the overall master plan, Boston City Councilor-at-Large Felix Arroyo introduced an ordinance last month that would institute a moratorium on construction by universities in Boston. In order to continue expanding, Harvard would have to continually shell out payments equivalent to the property taxes Harvard would pay were it not a nonprofit as well as receive City Council approval. Arroyo’s bill—effectively...
...chuckling at witty dialogue up until the moment it happened. The film takes an interesting turn as the murder rate slows. As Gyllenhaal successfully tracks down new leads, the audience watches his obsession with the case evolve into a nearly destructive level. Even after the film’s climax, Fincher toys with the audience’s senses. The tone swings from frightening heights of brutality to the frustrating reality that he’s still on the loose while police sift through the motions of bureaucracy. In this latter tone, Fincher proves he can make you cringe without...
...rejects the old tokens of patriarchal society in that comedic “Fuck guys! I just want to dance!” sort of way. Men are evil predators, the course preaches; a great number of them run around assaulting women, and they can never make us climax, because, as discussed in section 10, entitled “Masturbation and Orgasms,” we live in a “society that defines pleasure by male standards.” Class members would do well to find better sexual partners, I would...
...murkiness surrounding what's reasonable has deepened further with the Maryland case, which was tried in 2004. The accuser and the defendant agree that after he began to penetrate her and she wanted him to stop, he did so within a matter of seconds and did not climax. Even so, during deliberations, the jury sent a note to the judge asking if it was rape if a female changed her mind during the sex to which she consented and the man continued until climax. The judge said it was for them to decide. They convicted the defendant of first-degree...
...have had a theater named for him. He rounds out his autobiographical trilogy with Broadway Bound, a tough and unsettling recollection of the breakup of his parents' marriage and of how he walked out on that wreckage to launch his own career. The play's central image, its emotional climax, is that long-contemplated connection of mother and son, talking and dancing and?for just a moment?spiritually touching. "Until I wrote it," says Simon, "I had not fully resolved how I truly felt about my mother. I had no idea I had been so dependent on her. That...