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...client. But after he settles down, the arriving guests quicken the pace. While the first act seems to flow from quip to quip, the second act is hurried: the clipped delivery leads the characters to overcompensate by projecting their voices rather than their wits. Had the characters been edgier, The Nerd could have suggested the macabre tones of "Neighbors" or an episode of "The Twilight Zone," but the play is strictly...
Indeed. It was too late...or so I thought. My advisor was getting edgier and edgier every time I saw him, and I had began to fear that he was going to throttle me the next time I met him with the words "nothing...
...with a formidable network: Norman Lear, '44; Spalding Gray, '65; Henry Winkler, '67; Jay Leno, '73; Steven Wright, '78; and, not least, Doug Herzog, '81 (senior vice president for programming at MTV). "I don't specifically look for Emerson people," says Herzog, "but they tend to be a little edgier. They rise to the top, so they're easier to find." Still, admiration has its limits. Herzog says MTV will play Leary's new comedy video Ahole only after midnight: "We think it's a funny video, but clearly people might be put off by the language...
...Hughes' second film, The Breakfast Club, the mood is edgier and more combative: you and you and you and you and me against the whole rotten adult world. Five high schoolers--a jock (Emilio Estevez), a rebel (Judd Nelson), a brain (Anthony Michael Hall), a beatnik (Ally Sheedy) and a princess (Molly)-- spend a Saturday in detention. All they have in common are secret sins, an ache for camaraderie and a festering resentment of parental and school domination. There is little music, not much action, just kids sitting around talking. Good talk, though. The brain, ragged by the rebel...
...hush was of a different, edgier kind when the Marine Corps captain and sergeant stepped up to the suburban Baltimore apartment with news of Lance Corporal Davin Green. His mother had utterly persuaded herself that Davin, 20, was a survivor. "How do you know it's really him," she protested after the men delivered their message, "if he's all blown to pieces?" Days later, her daughter-in-law was refusing to concede she was a widow. "I know he's not dead," said Deborah Green, 19, whom Davin married 48 hours before shipping out for Beirut...