Word: commonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...really like the story, and I thought that it was probably such a common story that hasn't really been told in a main-stream American film. No, I never really thought of risks, I never thought, `Well, I don't really want to play this character because he's gay.' You just hope to play interesting parts, and that was an interesting part. And I was so thrilled to work with the people that were involved. Because they were so good. It just kinda went back to the same thing, "Oh my God, what am I doing in this...
With so many great bands, and the Battle onlyrevealing a selected glimpse at what the studentpopulace has to offer, why shouldn't there be morelive pop music events occurring in places likehouse dining halls and common rooms or otherappropriate spaces on campus? Students should helporganize events and attend those that others havetaken time to put together. Cut loose from thetraditional Harvard party or classical musicgig--there are only so many you can endure...
...Michael Moore is guilty of reductionism. He has villified corporate America, and his only evidence comes from the unemployed and for PR drones. His spare comments on real incomes are valid and merit elaboration, but they are not met with any depth. That the human moments and glimpses of common sense in The Big One are sandwiched between annoying, carelessly composed confrontations and stand-up routines is a shame...
...that her apparent inability to tell "truthfrom truth" is really a gift for discerning atruer truth as defined by her freely determinedindividual standards. At first, this rejection ofgenerally shared values seems an affront to thereader. Harlan's rejection of convention quicklybecomes understandable, though, as the narrativemakes clear that the common definitions of trueand untrue, right and wrong have only ever beenused to imprison her, conventions that define heras wrong and prevent her from constructing anidentity of her own so that she might be moreeasily be made to serve. For Harlan, theestablished definitions of truth and realitythreaten to deprive...
...reply. You can't go wrong here, as Mozart, Brahms and Gershwin will receive the breath of life from Lin's tenderly-stroked strings. Take a little bite out of the musical educational apple this Saturday at 8 p.m. at the formerly-of-Cocktail-Party- fame Winthrop House Junior Common Room...