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...then that Woo met Amarrah’s father through a mutual friend. He came to Woo’s apartment with nowhere to live and moved in two days later...
...competition.” Yet whatever its etymology, “comp” is essentially a euphemism for “apply to.” When out in the world at large, Harvard students prefer to shroud their doings in mystery, confounding their hometown friends with tales of the “script comp” or the “Crimson comp.” This term is unknown even at Yale. And Harvard students would prefer it to remain ambiguous. To have to admit to ex-colleagues from the Debate or Fencing team that their primary...
...compares it to trying to buy a pack of condoms: both involve the characteristic guilty body language, the overt attempts at subtlety, and the cashier’s tendency to nip the purchaser’s unobtrusiveness in the bud. A few scenes later, Jon’s best friend reveals that he is seriously ill, and Jon blanches, tears in his eyes. From “Sugar” to shock, “tick, tick…BOOM!,” which runs through Dec. 16 in the Adams House Pool Theatre, continually oscillates between the lighthearted...
...Barack Obama would emerge only after short speeches from his wife Michelle and his friend Oprah. Winfrey used her patented mix of girlfriend-style dish ("When Gayle and I talk... mmmm-mmm... we also talk about real things...") and campaign-style sermonizing ("Experience... means nothing unless that person is accountable for the judgments they made during the time they had.") That recipe was calibrated to reassure the audience that neither Oprah nor Obama was compromising here - that Obama's ambition to be a candidate of nobility would not be diminished by Oprah's status as a consumer guide. She even...
...first book in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy is meant to be a blockbuster for all major moviegoing demographics, from six to 16. Wreathed in lavish CGI effects, The Golden Compass traces the quest of the 12-year-old Lyra (Dakota Blue Richards) to find a missing friend and, eventually, to save her world. On the way to her destiny she's imprisoned by a glamorous vamp (Nicole Kidman), befriended by a talking polar bear (the talking is done by Ian McKellen) and accompanied by her own Jiminy Cricket - a cute, shape-shifting creature who speaks...