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...Dara Horn '99 is a literature concentrator in Eliot House. Her column appears on alternate Thursdays...
...Anderson (Bottle Rocket), is a film of wonderfully conceived characters. Reflecting their smart dedication to originally, Anderson and co-writer Owen Wilson have devised a colorful, eccentric cast in which two figures stand out as inspired creation. That first is Max Fisher (Jason Schwartzman), a gangly combination of braces, horn-rimmed glasses, greasy black hair and loads of smug self-assurance. A pupil at the posh, upper-crust Rushmore Academy, Max is a bright kid but a lousy student, mainly because he serves as the head of nearly two dozen extracurricular activities, ranging from the fencing team to the beekeepers...
...legend. She said to him "'A girl at Harvard told us about you!'" Buschbacher thinks, "That's pretty insane that word spreads to Yale. I'm not embarrassed by it, but I am shocked by the level to which people talk about it." While Buschbacher denies tooting his own horn, he will occasionally mention his rhino-like feature in conversation. "Sometimes when we joke around I say, 'Size matters,' to win an argument. It's a convenient joke." Buschbacher adds that at parties, "It's nice to use as an icebreaker...
...Dara Horn '99 is a literature concentrator in Eliot House. Her column appears on alternate Thursdays...
...window nose. From this vantage point, he offered readers his judgments of the nations of the earth, finding most of them filthy, lazy and wanting in Midwestern virtue. From Libya he once wrote, "No water in river, and country full of Wops." The British he regarded as "pink-coated, horn-blowing, supercilious bankrupts." The Blessed Isles were to him just one big "chalk-cliffed hell." McCormick ably reinforced the trait of editorial looniness so eagerly deployed by William Randolph Hearst, whose career reached its zenith in fomenting the Spanish-American...