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...Harvard students made their way past a police officer on horseback silently watching the proceedings. They were armed with rainbow flags and handmade signs plastered with slogans. “No discrimination in the Constitution,” read one. “God Created Adam and Yves,” declared another...
...make it sound somewhat stilted, excusing any loss of impact derived therein. I present to you another line from Adaptation that single-handedly trumps any off-day Kaufman offerings, when Donald Kaufman describes the screenplay he’s working on: “So the killer flees on horseback with the girl, the cop’s after them on a motorcycle and it’s like a battle between motors and horses, like technology vs. horse...
...kitchen had begun the summer before. After failing to get a job at the Pudding, she got a job as a prep cook at a restaurant in Nantucket, where she and her family had spent their summers. In childhood, she had “sold them berries to finance horseback riding lessons,” and now she had the opportunity to make culinary magic with those berries...
...immutability. Mass Hall has outlived generations of occupants; passing its stolid red brick on our way to class, we know it will anchor the Yard long after we’ve stopped sending checks to the development office. Commencement, baroque with its Latin and with its officials on horseback, exudes venerability; Harvard planners think in terms of decades and centuries as they limn the details of the Allston expansion. Despite the Undergraduate Council’s best efforts, it will be a generation before Harvard students enjoy a student center or a substantially better...
...like them, I thought. I’m better than them. I’m not ashamed of my thighs! I’m going to rock that Yard like King Arthur rocked the infidels, except I won’t be on horseback, and I will be absolutely naked...