Word: echo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most impressive about this production is the depth of the cast and the superbly understated direction from Travis and assistants. Nearly every aspect of Miller's potent script, major and subtle, has not only been captured but reinvigorated with a freshness that cannot help but echo its modern and contemporary parallels. Miller showed that Salem's witch hunts described the anatomy of McCarthyism in the late 40s and early 50s to the great dismay of his audiences. Today, instead of McCarthy's right-wing purges, an illiberal but leftist politics, sexual and otherwise, elicits similar dismay. Whatever other parallels come...
...Eating disorders in men aren't always clinical," says a male member of Eating Concerns Hotline and Outreach (ECHO), the eating disorder support group at Harvard. "They can get to clinical proportions, but most men, especially male athletes, aren't losing weight because they think they're fat. It's not about a loss of control." Male jockeys, wrestlers, swimmers and even dancers are all vulnerable to eating disorders because their professions necessitate weight restrictions. Yet while they may engage in aberrant eating practices, they resume regular eating patterns during the off-season...
...think that the fact people see a percentagefat [content] is important because that's whatpeople look at first," says Kristen VanAmburg '96,an ECHO counselor. "The point is not to scarepeople--I think fat is a necessary thing...
...ECHO co-president Christina Kalan '95 agreesthat it all depends on how a student approachesthe numbers...
...this storyline carrying your average "entertainment venture" with quick scenes, bright colors, beautiful people, an inspirational soundtrack, and a cartoonish treatment of violence. Instead, Tarantino locates about three fourths of his film in a huge, dismal, echo-y warehose. There, ugly guys scream at each other for so long and with such intensity that we feel like we're at a play. The lack of background noise (no violins or "Jaws" sounds to screw with our feelings) is broken up only by a few funky songs from a "Super Sounds of the Seventies" radio show. And the violence...