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...invites us to watch as a betraying beau comes chugging toward them. But Waiting to Exhale doesn't have the idiot vigor to become a camp classic like the movie Valley of the Dolls, says TIME's Richard Corliss. "This ain't art -- it's more like tasty junk food...
...generally, all Harvard students deserve a real movie theater as well as better bars and clubs in the Square, within walking distance. A student center that sells cheap junk food like McDonald's and Taco Bell instead of sophisticated, higher-priced substitutes would be nice too. But I'm only Santa Claus--I can't work miracles. Merry Christmas, everyone...
Things would be radically different. In terms of academics, courses on Plato, Aristotle and other "dead white males" would be replaced by studies of the ocuvre of Rigoberta Menchu. In residential life, we would have houses devoted to every possible ethnicity and sexual orientation. The dining halls would serve junk food instead of their nominally healthy offerings. (I admit that this last example may actually undermine my argument...
...local black press.) There will be no municipal government: the sewers, water and police will be provided by the county. Meanwhile, the public spaces, just like the commercial buildings, will be owned and controlled by Disney. A homeowners' association will rule on local issues, such as a junk car parked in a driveway or a house freshly painted in an unapproved color...
Time catches up suddenly to us all. One day you're young and brilliant and sullen to your elders, and the next you're getting junk mail from the American Association of Retired Persons and people your very own age are talking about pension plans and the prostate. Last week, on the southwest windowsill of my studio, I found a note written in tiny strokes in the dust, with two exhausted houseflies lying beside...