Word: heavyhandedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THIS must be a joke. Harvard is considering divesting its stock holdings in RJR-Nabisco and Philip Morris because promotional techniques in third world countries are often heavyhanded, and the companies do not place warning labels on cigarette packs there.
Does this mean Harvard will finally divest from South Africa on the grounds that the promotional techniques of apartheid are often heavyhanded, and the birth certificates of Blacks there are not equipped with warning labels?
The University wrote to both RJR-Nabisco and Philip Morris in July asking them to respond to charges that promotional techniques in Latin American, African and Asian nations are often heavyhanded. Harvard also asked the companies to explain why they do not place warning labels on cigarette packs, as is...
The Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club's production of The Ruling Class is something like receiving a dull gift in elaborate wrapping. While the individual layers of the production are top quality, the overall effect of the play, due mainly to an ovewhelmingly heavyhanded script, is downright annoying.
Durang has written parodies before; in his History of the American Film and his Idiots Karamazov (written with Albert Innaturato) he relied exclusively on the form. But in each of those cases he used familiar cultural images as springboards to more important--and funnier--issues. This latest offering manages only...