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...feministic Meredith (Sarah Meyers '02) wins with--among other things--a position paper on the "exploitation of the Chilean sea urchin." Billy (Amias Moore-Gerety '02) spews bad double-entendres with annoying regularity; after his girlfriends desert him, he perks up at thoughts of prefrosh virgins. When Al Gore-ish, IOP-loving Jack Canaday (James Benenson '02) discovers that Valerie (Jessica Kirshner '02) has been cheating on him, he whips out his cell phone and gives his father word of a "code red" that could destroy his (i.e., Jack's) political career. B.J. Averell '02, as a Harvard Square...
...feministic Meredith (Sarah Meyers '02) wins with--among other things--a position paper on the "exploitation of the Chilean sea urchin." Billy (Amias Moore-Gerety '02) spews bad double-entendres with annoying regularity; after his girlfriends desert him, he perks up at thoughts of prefrosh virgins. When Al Gore-ish, IOP-loving Jack Canaday (James Benenson '02) discovers that Valerie (Jessica Kirshner '02) has been cheating on him, he whips out his cell phone and gives his father word of a "code red" that could destroy his (i.e., Jack's) political career. B.J. Averell '02, as a Harvard Square "pitkid...
Like Bridget, Christensen's Claudia Steiner is a mess, the kind who bumps along falling into bed with losers and who drinks water "only in the form of melted ice in my drinks." A ghostwriter for a Jackie Collins-ish author, Claudia is trying to exit her protracted adolescence and win the love of her best friend, a lawyer, William, who might want to keep things platonic. Not much happens in this novel (and some of what does happens a bit too randomly), but Claudia is endearing because she remains appreciative of her own grittiness. She avoids coming...
...hate anything that smacks of the unenlightened era when men brought home the bacon and their wives cooked it? Domestic tasks are the enemy: they trick perfectly capable women into stay-at-home-mom-ness. To be a strong, complete woman, I am supposed to eschew all housewife-ish activities and pursue the rat race. Why? Because in this...
Judi Dench, Shakespeare in Love. Sure, Dench was fun as a curmudgeon-ish Elizabeth I. But for goodness sakes, she was only on screen for nine minutes! But Dench plays ice queen better than anyone, and Academy members feel guilty for passing her over in Mrs. Brown last year for Helen Hunt (we all feel guilty for that...