Word: dimes
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...opportunities that came his way. “Harvard won’t give you anything, you have to take it,” he says. And Ravishankara has taken advantage of a lot Harvard has to offer. He shot movies on 16mm film on Harvard’s dime, earned a secondary field degree in VES, and met friends that truly inspired him. “There is this incredible diversity in people that go here and the opportunities available,” he says. Dern, of recent reality-TV fame, says he and Ravishankara recognized something in each...
...market, and we at the most elite universities are lucky to be at institutions where admission is becoming more and more of a daunting task. Our lives look relatively easy on the surface: We live with our friends in an intellectual environment—on our parents’ dime, no less—with few pressures or worries lasting longer than a semester...
...mostly chronological rendition of the songs, a theme does emerge: of social change in America, from before the First World War to after the Second. Along with the love songs and star turns, Stairway has Depression dirges ("Buddy, Can You Spare a Dime"), war anthems (Berlin's, of course) and songs of social significance. But glamour drove the old Ziegfeld revues, and glamour at Encores! is not skin but star quality. The star here is Kristen Chenoweth, that petite package of pyrotechnics who has wowed Broadway in Wicked and, this season, in The Apple Tree (a production that originated...
...Garden State”: it’s a thought-provoking comedy starring a twenty-something loner with a weird family, stagnant career, and girlfriend troubles. Indeed, based on the premise alone it could be one of many such films, which seem to be a dime a dozen nowadays. But its creators hope it will stand out. “There are actually quite a lot of scripts like this that are flowing around,” says Steph Song, an actress from the movie, in a phone interview with The Crimson. Song, who plays the love interest...
...should admit that the problem does not lie wholly with our TFs so much as with the sheer stupidity that students think they can get away with. I wish I had a dime for every time I saw a TF’s flaccid, feigned smile of approbation, that muttering of “good” or “interesting” every time another student weighs in with a complete non-sequitur...