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At 39, Mick Jagger is like an aging but still energetic courtesan: he gives pleasure so expertly it hardly matters that his heart and guts may not be in his work. Hal Ashby's slapdash film record of the Rolling Stones' 1981 U.S. tour reveals the old showman...
The fundamental problem with a weighted lottery which gives highest preference to seniors is that it fails to take into account the fact that Harvard's course offerings are constantly changing. Courses appear and disappear from the catalogue; professors come and go; guts become surprisingly difficult.
The uneven quality of the writing, which sometimes reads like a TV show without the pictures, is more than compensated for by the conclusions reached. We may think of ourselves as a society of entrepreneurs, for instance, but the risk takers, according to this battlefield survey, are often among the...
IN THE RARIFIED CULTURAL ATMOSPHERE of Cambridge, it is hard to praise a street movie like 48 Hours. You sound mean and hissing, like Peter Lorre. "But 'low-brow trash' is such an ugly word. I prefer to call it 'escapism'. You despise me, Rick, don't you?" On the...
It was precisely this cynicism that began to grip Stockman who, as a former peace activist at Michigan State and a John Anderson speech writer at Harvard graduate school, had very much taken the campus-politico route--when the bitter truth about Reaganomics became clear. This cynicism, and a powerful...