Word: contemptibles
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...idea. They can smell his desperation. It invites their casual contempt. When a movie star (Melanie Griffith) grants him a sexual favor, it's one of those once-in-a-lifetime benisons queens sometimes bestow on a lucky serf, not the beginning of a relationship. When a supermodel (Charlize Theron) catches a glimpse of his only glamorous asset, a classic Aston Martin sports car, she thinks its owner may do as an escort for a night on the town, but her attention keeps wandering...
...Leonora Armfeldt (Lucy MacPhail '01) explains to her granddaughter (Kari Gauksheim '01) that people fall into three categories: the young, the fools and the old. MacPhail does a wonderful job with her elderly, jaded character, providing perspective on the play by holding the rest of the characters in brazen contempt. The Leibeslieders, a kind of Greek chorus, add another narrative layer to the work. Each of the singers parallels a character and performs occasional scenes based the plot, though an exact connection is difficult to decipher. Along with Leonora's critique, the Leibeslieders have a surreal effect on A Little...
...commercials in Europe. What's not clear is the product on sale here. It seems to be brotherhood among the races. But David McKenna's script is either cunningly ambiguous or desperately muddled. In racially torn Venice Beach, Calif., the neo-Nazis are pathetic lowlifes, crying out for our contempt. And of course Nazism is a thug ideology. Yet much of the film's violence is committed by blacks; most of the victims are white. So what's the moral...
...kleptomaniacs, as he did this summer, or when Christian groups run ad campaigns insisting gays can be cured. While that language may try to throw the debate back more than 20 years, before psychologists concluded that homosexuality is not a mental illness, it represents a recognition that pure contempt is tricky when you are talking about people's children or friends...
...these catalogues that the book isweakest; the chapters recounting the nomadicwanderings of Stuart's aunts and uncles--up anddown the East Coast, back and forth across theAtlantic--are entirely forgettable. Of marginalinterest in these lengthy dives into the past arethe glimpses of recent and not-so recentHarvardiana: contempt for the ghettos of NewHaven; romantic entanglements shot to hell over asquash game in Adams House; a complete mentalbreakdown in Lamont Library; a tour of a chintzyQuincy House bachelor pad belonging to her famedcousin; and of course standard turn-of-the-centuryRadcliffe gripes about having to settle forhusbands from the A.D. rather...