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Chris Cox, a special assistant to President Bush, had an additional warning for the representatives—that they are in their most vulnerable stage politically. “You’ll never be more in danger of losing your seat than right now,” Cox said. “Small mistakes for seniors are big mistakes for freshmen...
...with his self-professed role as witness and writer of American culture, combined with his (usually) capable ear for linguistic nuance, danger lies in the delicacy of Wolfe’s role as decoder of American life. That’s because in Charlotte Simmons he doesn’t merely depict undergraduate life—he damns it. And he damns it with the paltry evidence he marshals in page after innumerable page of colorful but ultimately stereotypical “evidence...
...think that the greatest danger is that rather than admitting their inability to evaluate it, many writers and critics attempt to evaluate it anyway by resorting to an implicit (and therefore all the more dangerous for being so) quasi-formalism. While I doubt anyone writing about art today would feel comfortable saying that a work of art is good just because it looks cool, there seem to be plenty of writers who don’t know what to say and so slip into poetic statements of how cool that object looks: hence the “exquisite?...
...discourse (comparatively). But the film’s ho-hum shenanigans aren’t devoid of eye-opening sexual elements, particularly the masculinity crisis embodied in Cage’s ‘girly’ sidekick Riley. Throughout the film he whines and moans about all the danger Gates is getting him into, in between his moments of rocket scientist computer wizardry. Riley refers to Abigail as “that hot girl” while Gates pretends to be disinterested because we all know that they’ll make out in the end. In one scene...
...least one of this weekend’s games, it’s all but certain that the WCHA will have at least three of the top four teams in this year’s expanded Frozen Eight playoffs. While Harvard is by no means in danger of not finishing in the top eight—provided the team stays healthy and barring a major unforeseen meltdown of some kind—the Crimson is in danger of not qualifying for home-ice advantage come playoff time. And if Harvard doesn’t crack into the top four, they...