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Debunking the myth of Harvard's dull love scene, some seniors will greet graduation with rings on their fingers and a true love by their sides...

Author: By Rosalind S. Helderman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: love~Struck Seniors Tie the Knot | 6/3/1998 | See Source »

...recognize that just because issues are serious and important doesn't mean they have to be dull," he says...

Author: By Richard S. Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A NEW REPUB-LOOK | 6/2/1998 | See Source »

...American middle class is accustomed to protracted adolescence almost as an entitlement. Disorienting, then, to confront the sometimes fatal precocity of the young in Finnegan's marginal world. H.L. Mencken had the American masses down as the "booboisie," hopelessly straight and dull and dumb. Finnegan catches perfectly the way ordinary America today may pass through some moral looking glass into a devouring universal consumers' bazaar wherein the remotest locales sell the fanciest drugs and perversions, and the minds of the young, ungrounded by their absent parents' experience or protection, become unrecognizably weird. Mindy, a model-pretty 17-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hanging on the Edge | 5/25/1998 | See Source »

...state of affairs in Connecticut that has hemmed Hex and Billie and Billie's husband Lou Sloane into standard suburban lives; instead, he analyzes and describes and unravels character and action and landscape in scintillating prose. He is a young author who chooses to write about rather sordid, dull aspects of modern life, to be sure, but he follows an old, old tradition of writing wellcrafted, intelligent novels with Purple America...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Murphy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Moody Novel Is No Pity Party | 5/15/1998 | See Source »

...Hasidic Jew who can't handle her religion's strict more. Constantly red-faced or stuck in a deliriously cheesy monologue, Zwelleger tears into the role trying to make the film somewhat watchable. All her effort is ultimately futile: A Price Above Rubies is not only an example of dull storytelling but also of offensive and exasperating, preachy filmmaking. Sonya wants to discover true, "burning" passion. The filmmakers make it obvious that true love cannot be found in her community--a tenuous, seemingly-offensive position. When Sonya is expelled by the community, we feel more relief than sadness. --Soman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevitas | 4/17/1998 | See Source »

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