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...puts on a surefire flop so the tax collectors will never spot that it was designed to bilk hordes of investors. But just days before the American import was set to begin previews last Friday, Dreyfuss seemed to be drawing a little too much inspiration from his determined-to- fail character. First the star of Mr. Holland's Opus and Jaws admitted to Metro Life magazine that he can neither holler nor hoof, and suggested that the show's producers should "take out an ad on the front page of each arts section in town and have it say, 'Please...
...fail. It all comes spilling...
...19th century, and with such a history, Crimson crew takes tradition very seriously. In addition to its long-standing winning tradition, it also has accrued through the ages a less tangible set of traditions, a venerable code of boathouse etiquette by which oarsmen are expected to abide.For if rowers fail to heed this unwritten, sacred code, senior Michael Kummer will be there, and he will throw them in the Charles River...
...Berkeley’s Horowitz debacle or Cal Poly’s censure of Steve Hinkle to realize that. It is troubling that the culture of academic life has eschewed the notion of vibrant discussion. Instead, we stifle what we do not want to hear, and we fail to engage on topics for which we have not studied. If we walk away from our debates, we will never be able to progress, and the culture and cause of intellectualism will be beyond repair...
...usual pseudo-feminist productions. Unfortunately, Ally McBeal this ain’t; the reversed formula simply doesn’t work. Even an actor of Spader’s skill can’t support a show on his own, and the boring characters Kelley surrounds him with fail to gain the audience’s interest...