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...Never mind the fact that Cambridge is equipped with its own historical landmarks, theaters, and neighborhoods. An anthology of tales about eight-hour organic chemistry labs, lunches in the Pit with preteen skinheads and idle afternoons lingering over coffee and croissants at Au Bon Pain, do not a complete Harvard Summer School Extension student make...
...Freedom" is our official national rallying cry, but unfreedom is, for many people, the price of economic survival. At best this is deeply confusing. In school we're taught that liberty is more precious than life itself--then we're expected to go out and sell that liberty, in eight-hour chunks, in exchange for a livelihood. But if you'd sell your freedom of speech for a few dollars an hour, what else would you sell? Think where we'd be now, as a nation, if Patrick Henry had said, "Give me liberty or give me, uh, how about...
...here, a surrender to the excesses of actressy masochism. As Sadie, she leaves no emotional scab unpicked. It's a role for which her voice, carriage and technique are ill suited; she's too small for these grandiloquent gestures. Georgia's big set piece is an eight-minute (or possibly eight-hour) Joplinesque song in which Leigh screams, whines and pleads "Take me back" while falling to pieces onstage. It's a startling, exhausting spectacle--and, like the rest of Leigh's performance, very, very...
Terkel asked the two people how many hours they worked each day. Taken a little off guard, they responded eight. He then asked them whether they were familiar with the Haymarket Affair, where "four guys got hanged fighting for the eight-hour work...
...surrender to the excesses of actressy masochism. As Sadie, Corliss notes, Leigh leaves no emotional scab unpicked. "It's a role for which her voice, carriage and technique are ill suited; she's too small for these grandiloquent gestures. Georgia's big set piece is an eight-minute (or possibly eight-hour) Joplinesque song in which Leigh screams, whines and pleads "Take me back" while falling to pieces onstage. It's a startling, exhausting spectacle, and, like the rest of Leigh's performance, very, very...