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...Actually, it's hard to tell which if any of the critical faves will be popular, because most of the big winners (Diving Bell, No Country, Persepolis, Starting Out in the Evening, Sweeney Todd, There Will Be Blood) are November or December releases. Half of them haven't hit the commercial theaters yet. Maybe the critical establishment has A.D.D...
...Golden Globes and the Oscars, if they follow the critics' lead, will have V.D.D. - viewer deficit disorder. Large numbers of people won't watch shows paying tribute to movies they haven't seen. In the old Golden Age days, most contenders for the top Oscars were popular movies that had a little art. Now they're art films that have a little, very little, popularity. The serious movies Hollywood gives awards to in January and February are precisely the kind it avoids making for most of the year. The Oscars are largely an affirmative action program, where the industry scratches...
...match counts. Even those matches that don’t affect the record may also be meaningful because of the experience that can be applied later. Harvard gained such experience over the weekend at the USSRA 5-Man Team Championships. The Crimson fielded two five-person teams in New Haven, Conn., where collegiate and national-level squads faced off in a three-day tournament. In the end, Harvard’s A team took fifth place, while the B team did not fare as well, suffering elimination after losing its first two matches of the tournament. Harvard managed...
...build a theatre at Harvard and allow the students in his playwriting class to mount their works.Yet university officials, still entrenched in intellectual prejudices against the study of dramatic works, scoffed at what they felt would be a frivolous pre-professional program.Baker went to New Haven to establish the Yale School of Drama, and the rest, as they say, is history. His departure ensured Yale’s well-known dominance over Harvard in the theater world.EXTRACURRICULAR RENAISSANCEWhile Yale’s dramatic scene took off in an institutionalized setting, Harvard’s began to develop into what...
...Friars’ physical front line. Sophomore guard Amy Simpson is the Wildcat to stop: her 12.6 points per game leads the team.—EMILY W. CUNNINGHAMThis weekend, the Harvard men’s squash team will look to continue winning as the Crimson travels to New Haven for the U.S. Squash five-man team tournament. Harvard has proved thus far that it can overcome injury and youth to best several good teams this season. The Crimson will likely post a strong showing at the tournament, as the men’s top five have only dropped...