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...fact that those who entered Harvard in '45 or '46 never lived in Yard as all other first-year students did. Instead, because of the Navy officers still on campus, they moved directly into their Houses. The four years spent together, instead of only three, helped foster House spirit...
...David Foster Wallace's Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (Little, Brown; 274 pages; $24) is a mixed bag of 23 essays and short stories that display a range of intellect and talent that is unseemly for any one writer to have, let alone show off. Like the author's earlier work, this collection is designed to keep readers from getting too comfortable. You know the feeling if you had trouble keeping up with the plot lines, arcana and footnotes that spread like kudzu through the 1,000 pages of Wallace's 1996 novel, Infinite Jest...
Though Taylor's views on life (rooted in a disillusioned foster childhood) are questionable, 43 years of extraordinary contributions to the modern dance world have made Taylor an incredible symbol of hard work and talent. Even if you're not savvy on the topic of modern dance and its rightful place in the world, rare footage of Taylor performing his own work makes this film worth seeing...
...plot of How the Other Half Loves is almost as complicated as the staging. Bob Phillips (John Duda '99), a bored young businessman, has an adulterous affair with Fiona Foster (Sarah Matthay '99), the promiscuous wife of Bob's manager. Their unfortunate decision to use fictitious after-work jaunts with Bob's socially inept coworker William Detweiller (Kirk Hanson '99) and his wife Mary (Erica Rabbit '00) as a means of covering up their late-night meetings leads to a sequence of embarrassing dinner parties, misread signals, and confused assumptions on the part of almost everyone involved. Place...
...course, the real strength of Ruiz's production lies in his cast. Jonah St. Newmoth leads the comic charge as the dim-witted but lovable Frank Foster, flanked at all times by Duda as the detestably arrogant Bob and Hanson as the hopelessly pathetic but well-meaning William...