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...picture needed to be shown in at least one theater for at least one week to qualify for the special wages paid to actors who are involved with a low-budget film. This is to ensure that producers don't fast-talk eager actors into accepting lower pay for what they are told is a legitimate feature, but is actually a direct-to-video project. Although Zyzzyx's filmmakers had always planned to seek a distributor for a large, domestic release, they first rented out the small Texas theater in order to fulfill the SAG requirements...
...more than 35 years ago and now keeps a modest private cellar—he calls it is his cave (the French term, pronounced cahv)—from which he chooses wines for himself and House events. Like many of Harvard’s wine lovers, he was eager and garrulous when talking about his passion for wine and the highlights of his cave, ranging from late 1960s Châteauneuf-du-Pape to a group of 1982 Firestone Vineyards, “gathering a lot of dust as they...
...under. Around the time of independence, his father and stepmother chose a girl for him to marry. "But I didn't like her. You know, we didn't love each other," he says. Kwame started wooing Theresa Afue, another girl in the village, instead. Within months they had married, eager to begin their lives together in a country that was finally free...
...always struck me as an odd message to ‘get a passport,’” Lewis says. “People accepted coming here because they were eager to be here.” An outspoken skeptic of the recent emphasis on study abroad, Lewis believes that there is a risk in approving programs that may not meet Harvard’s rigorous academic standards...
...being gifts from some well-intentioned Catholic students. But I was wrong. The kids handing out fliers had been members of True Love Revolution (TLR)—Harvard’s newest pro-abstinence group, which provides a non-religious rationale for waiting until marriage. I was eager to see if a secular argument could be as compelling as threats of eternal hell-fire, which, even if they’ve not convinced me to keep my belt tied, have always made me feel, at the very least, temporarily slutty...