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...musical nature of the songs is often in direct contrast to the content. For instance, the lyrical love duet sung by John Hinckley (Patrick W. Hosfield ’05) and Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme (Julie Goldin) to the absent Jodie Foster and Charles Manson is musically the most beautiful number in the show, and their voices resonate with passion and fervor. Yet it is actually a song about obsession, control and the desire of two unbalanced individuals to do something tragically drastic to prove their love. Hosfield and Goldin play it totally straight, refraining from...

Author: By Adrienne E. Shapiro, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ‘Assassins’ Hits Right On The Mark | 4/12/2002 | See Source »

...1970s—but does so with a light heart and a sardonic wit, also characteristic of the English. In the end, the reader comes away with a sense of perseverance through a life of dissatisfaction. None of the characters are miserable, nor are any of them truly content. Even in the end, when they have accomplished their goals, they cannot achieve happiness simply due to the fact that unhappiness surrounds them. Nonetheless, the melancholy reads sweetly; the characters push on and live their lives with good-humored cynicism and sarcasm...

Author: By Steven N. Jacobs, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Coming of Age in Birmingham, England | 4/12/2002 | See Source »

...male Cosmo,” though she says that “Maxim is better for men than Cosmo is for women.” In Chou’s opinion, Cosmopolitan presents an ideal of femininity that is almost impossible to achieve, while Maxim is content to let boys be boys...

Author: By Dominic A. Hood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: "Buffy" Slays Thesis Writers | 4/11/2002 | See Source »

April showers may well bring May flowers, but this year April sunshine has been bringing out scores of Harvard sunbathers. Even the most dour students have found themselves tempted outside, content to forget work for a few hours and dedicate themselves to the wholesome pursuit of melanoma. After all, there could be few places more beautiful to lie outside than in the middle of Harvard Yard—except when it is barricaded off for fertilization—or down on the grassy banks of the Charles...

Author: By Anthony S.A. Freinberg, | Title: Ivory Towers of Concrete | 4/11/2002 | See Source »

...male Cosmo,” though she says that “Maxim is better for men than Cosmo is for women.” In Chou’s opinion, Cosmopolitan presents an ideal of femininity that is almost impossible to achieve, while Maxim is content to let boys be boys...

Author: By Biana Fay, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Maxim Cum Laude | 4/11/2002 | See Source »

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