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...Marlene Dietrich before Brooks said yes, knew that the Germans would be outraged that an American flapper was playing their Lulu, a character that was nearly a national icon. (Imagine the flap in Britain if this were announced: Brad Pitt is James Bond.) But they couldn't resist Brooks' fresh approach, which painted Lulu as a naif with bad taste in beaux. A carnal Candide, a blithe arsonist of men's hearts, she has no calculation in her, just a knowing or beckoning smile. Her face makes a kind of smile when she's crying too, as if even...
...sets accommodate a cast of characters who find again and again that their intellectual de-fenses have either gone out of date or been knocked down by the business of living. The fresh-ness of perspective engendered by such disorientation is consistently rendered with affectionate grace...
Floreat Domus de Eliot!” Let flourish the great house of Eliot! At least that’s the idea. Two weekends ago, in the late, late hours of Saturday night, the air still fresh with the stench of botched plumbing, Eliot House residents were greeted by yet another surprise. When the problem first became apparent, some were still losing themselves in the sweeping rhythms of “Since U Been Gone.” Others were, apparently, engaging in late night “study” sessions. Most were either sleeping...
...students frolicked with glee in the Yard, the infamous Core Curriculum recently sucked in its last breath. Those freed from its clutches, however, were too busy celebrating to see that its replacement, the General Education plan, fails to provide a fresh alternative. Instead of reinventing the old beast, as the College has done, the best solution would have been to truly liberalize our education requirements by eliminating them completely...
...going into the race were to finish in the top five,” Harvard coach Jason Saretsky said. “We had worked too hard and put too much in to finish eighth again.” With the memory of their recent last place Heptagonals finish fresh, the Crimson pounded the opposition, defeating all five of the other Ivy League teams in the race with a score of 161—a score twice as good as last year’s total of 322. “When I got up to the line to give...