Word: confessions
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Gentlemen: I must confess serious doubts about the efficacy—or even the integrity—of the “classic” exam period editorial, “Beating the System,” you reprinted recently. I almost suspect this so-called “Donald Carswell ’50” of being rather one of Us—the Bad Guys—than one of you. If your readers have been following Mr. Carswell’s advice for the last 11 years, then your readers have been going down the tubes...
...Faith Healer The one-person show is, I confess, not my favorite form of theater, and this play by Irish dramatist Brian Friel is essentially four of them, delivered by three different characters who never interact onstage: an itinerant faith healer (who, being the title character, gets to talk twice), his wife and his manager. The actors ? Ralph Fiennes, Cherry Jones and Ian McDiarmid ? are wonderful, but this is one very long slog, with whatever dramatic momentum is generated dissipated by a climax of rather annoying obliqueness. This is the sort of self-conscious showcase for ?writing? and ?acting? that...
...most interesting enigma this film explores, which is the nature of the artist?s ego. Ours is a democratic era, and democracy tends to reward regular guys and to look somewhat askance at people who do extraordinary things. How many people have you run into who confess that they might have become architects, if only? Same way with movie directors, with people who were good at writing in high school and so on. We need to believe that Frank Gehry (or Sydney Pollack) just got a little luckier than we did. And they need to pretend the same thing, lest...
...touching Romeo, singing “Almost Paradise” in surprisingly sweet and melting tones to Ariel.Bala’s resonating voice and touching facial expressions brought me, not just to tears, but to embarrassing nose-blowing by the end of “I Confess.” Rusty (Caroline A. Jennings ’09) beats out Carrie Underwood any day in her rendition of “Let’s Hear it for the Boy.”Even if there is no particular superstar, Jonah C. Priour ’09 is definitely...
...Sexes: Nearly two-thirds (63%) of men own 10 pairs of shoes or less with the average being 12 pairs. A large majority (82%) of women on the other hand, own 11 pairs of shoes or more with the average being 27 pairs. Two-in-five (19%) women confess to having more than 50 pairs of shoes, compared to only 4% of men.? About one-third (34%) of affluent women own more than 10 handbags, with the average being 7. One-quarter (25%) of respondents have between 6-10 handbags...