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...From a Goldman Sachs recruiting cover letter: Fifteen Minutes exemplifies all the qualities I hope to bring to your institution—dedication, wit, a love of the craft and, above all, a subtle mix of both overt arrogance and unabashed obsequiousness...
...From Sue Grafton’s FM is for Fifteen Murders: It was a dark rainy night as I entered the courtyard of Lowell House, a dormitory by the Charles River. I was looking for a girl. I found her—sprawled across some sort of magazine printed on newsprint. She was dead. Dead. And judging by the way the blood was creeping across the pages of the (most amusing) broadsheet, her fifteen minutes had run out very recently indeed...
...Helene Cixous essay: In the ticking “minute hand” of the clock that gives the magazine its title, a striking phallic symbol is clearly discernible. Fifteen minutes, after all, is a magazine that explores the interrelations between the two so-called genders at college-age. It highlights both the old-fashion sexual subjugation of young women who “slut it up” on the weekends to the delight of their male counterparts—as well as these same women’s newfound post-feminist sexual liberation...
...posthumous release by the Notorious B.I.G.: It was all a dream. I used to read fifteen minutes magazine. Crazy rich white Harvard guys up in a limousine...
...surprised on cue, which was most of what his character’s actions entailed, and his knack for contorting his face and appearing horrified was funny time and time again. As the snooty, overbearing hotel manager who must have thrown his guests out of the hotel more than fifteen times, Duke performed with a panache which made his characterization inevitably charming. Two valiant cast members were brave enough to bare more than the rest for their roles—freshman Peter T. McGuire ’08 and Smith each attacked their duties with confident professionalism. McGuire conveys...