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Thomas Middleton was the rebel of English Renaissance drama. Audiences adored how his plays went right to the limits - his sex was dirty, his violence grisly, his politics risky. His work was so popular in his time that it broke box-office records at London's Globe theater. But over the centuries, thanks to censorship and Victorian prudery, he fell out of fashion. By the time the world was ready again for Middleton's R-rated brand of theater, Shakespeare reigned as the undisputed heavyweight champion of English literature, knocking everyone else to the margins of the curriculum and away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thomas Middleton: For Adults Only | 11/7/2007 | See Source »

...photo featured next to one of Bhabha, Harvard Film Archive Director Haden R. Guest wore a polished suit reflective of what he described to the Globe as his “old-school, but streamlined” style...

Author: By Lindsay P. Tanne, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Home to Haute Couture | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

...President Drew G. Faust’s installation last month, Bhabha shielded himself from the rain with a pink-and-red umbrella decorated with flower blossoms. When asked what fashion myth about academics he would like to dispel, Bhabha told the Globe: “That they always wear baggy tweed jackets. Or shapeless jeans...

Author: By Lindsay P. Tanne, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Home to Haute Couture | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

...wear a tie now,” he told the Globe. “In Los Angeles, ties make people nervous, you wear one and everyone asks, ‘What’s the occasion?’ When I lived in L.A., I only wore ties at funerals...

Author: By Lindsay P. Tanne, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Home to Haute Couture | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

Likewise, Vamoose did not approach the Cambridge Traffic, Parking and Transportation Department to ask for permission to park in front of Widener Gate until The Boston Globe reported Wednesday that the company had not received permits in Boston, according to Susan Clippinger, director of the Cambridge traffic department...

Author: By Michal Labik, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Vamoose May Not Leave the Station | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

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