Word: jockish
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garb throughout the week, but this is only a matter of comfort--if you have never worn DHAs, you are missing out on something special--and convenience. I may adorn myself with this jockish attire, but when I speak in section, when I picture myself walking through the Yard, when I enter the Barker Center, I envision a student and I hope that is also what others...
...from playing many attention-grabbing cinematic tricks, so good acting is crucial here. Fortunately, all three principals give rounded, believable performances even while improvising much of the dialogue. Heather (Heather Donahue) plays the director and narrator of the documentary. Her drive keeps the project going, but her badgering of jockish, camera-toting Mike (Michael Williams) and easy-going sound engineer Josh (Joshua Leonard) causes tension. As things go awry, however, the power structure breaks down. Their relationships become more subtle and volatile as their fear wears on them and paranoia grows. They are each sympathetic in their own ways...
...from playing many attention-grabbing cinematic tricks, so good acting is crucial here. Fortunately, all three principals give rounded, believable performances even while improvising much of the dialogue. Heather (Heather Donahue) plays the director and narrator of the documentary. Her drive keeps the project going, but her badgering of jockish cameraman Mike (Michael Williams) and easy-going soundman Josh (Joshua Leonard) causes tension. As things go awry, however, the power structure breaks down. Their relationships become more subtle and volatile as their fear wears on them and paranoia looms. They are each sympathetic, in their own ways, and our caring...
...being sucked deeper and deeper into the Crimson whirlpool, I realized that I had simply escaped from one homogeneous group and entered another. As my rooming group was Irish and jockish, the Crimson was Jewish, New York, and too serious. My Harvard changed from Andover cornheads, to Irish jocks, to Jewish editors. It seemed that there was no escape from homogeneous groups, and I feared that I would not fit into any one of them...
Smith, who hails from New Castle, Delaware, grew up in a basketball family. "We're a pretty jockish bunch," she says, laughingly recalling her little brother: "He thinks he's this great basketball player--Olympic material. He spends all day practicing his 'moves' up in his room...