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...jerk from it. I felt out of my body.” Given the strident title of Blair’s memoir, it’s hard not to view this scene as a potent self-lynching. Indeed, while the veracity of Blair’s account is necessarily dubious, he is still a talented writer: his memoir often succeeds even as fiction...
...that Lost in Translation could’ve been. I think Linklater’s been hit-and-miss for a few years—School of Rock aside, Tape underwhelmed me, and all that Waking Life had going for it was innovative presentation (there’s that dubious “I” word again) and enough aimless, useless philosophizing to fill a semester of Moral Reasoning lectures—but I am very pumped for the Ethan/Julie reunion. It’s the next best thing to the Brief Encounter sequel that we never...
This is partly an inevitable function of age and class: we are college students, usually low on funds and time and in possession of dubious proof of our drinking legality. Still, Harvard life is laden with opportunities to play at adulthood—if ones that you might never again encounter after graduation—so it follows that we undergraduates should at least consider playing gourmand.Which is why, on a recent Tuesday night, I found myself skipping Quincy dining hall in favor of Harvest restaurant and partaking of one of their regular wine dinner events. This particular dinner...
...President Bush impose such harmful restrictions? Quite simply, he associated the harvesting of lab-created embryos with abortion—a dubious stretch, in our view. We find it hard to believe that a dozen undifferentiated cells created in a petri dish—cells that will never develop into a human being—should be protected with such zeal. Especially when they hold promising potential to repair damaged blood vessels or cure Alzheimer’s disease...
...evening goes to Entertainment Weekly’s Maria Menounos, who wore a lavish diamond-studded gown worth $2.5 million. The dress, however, explains why such gratuitous cleavage was shown—she simply couldn’t afford to hide her breasts—and it is always dubious when someone wears an outfit that is worth more than their career...