Word: excessives
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...raucous audience enthusiasm continued into the next theme of “Boogie Nights,” which celebrated the 70s theme of stylistic excess manifested in flashy clothes and absurdly over-the-top hairstyles. Noticeable throughout the show was the pairing off of couples of different ethnic backgrounds, and the multiracial aspect wasn’t lost on Ardrey and Melvin. Playing up the lame Caucasian stereotype, they directed David A. Wallach ’07 in vaulting himself through Studio 54’s velvet ropes, after which he was carried off the stage by Mike Beal...
...crass as it is to remind the administration that Harvard has an endowment of $19.5 billion, it does. I understand, of course, that Harvard’s operating budget is gargantuan and that despite the commensurate endowment, the University isn’t dripping with excess cash. Nevertheless, the pitifully short library hours need not remain an immutable fact of life...
Pauline Kael, at one time arguably the best film critic in operation, has turned into the Hubert Humphrey of film criticism. She comes on chatty and playful when talking about film techniques, valuing good stars above acting and sensual excess over rigor, all the time letting us know that under that tigress bite of hers beats a heart which overflows with sympathy. She makes sufficient noises in the vague directions of liberalism to insure our recognition that she cares in the correct way about moral and political issues which the films she sees might raise. She is overwhelmingly ebullient...
Pauline Kael, at one time arguably the best film critic in operation, has turned into the Hubert Humphrey of film criticism. She comes on chatty and playful when talking about film techniques, valuing good stars above acting and sensual excess over rigor, all the time letting us know that under that tigress bite of hers beats a heart which overflows with sympathy. She makes sufficient noises in the vague directions of liberalism to insure our recognition that she cares in the correct way about moral and political issues which the films she sees might raise. She is overwhelmingly ebullient...
...always a sound investment. According to a study of 7,000 men that was coauthored by Dr. Tedd Mitchell of the Cooper Clinic in Dallas, fit individuals spend half as many nights in the hospital as unfit individuals do. And with the cost of an overnight stay now in excess of $1,100 (according to the Healthcare Financing Administration), those visits add up. --With reporting by Carolyn Bigda