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...think that the Faculty has a vast reservoir of latent sympathy which could be tapped," she said...
Bouchez and Regnier won a joint prize at Cannes for their roles, and their performances have that improvised-looking-but-probably-took-30-takes-each -time-to-get quality. They are particularly effective at moments both when their characters send out tentative care-feelers, latent with trust hopefully overriding suspicion and when they eventually turn on one another. Colin, as Marie's squeeze, Chris, plays a very believable asshole...
...When things eventually arrive on our distant shores, they are never quite the same as the original product. For example, Temple Bar can't compare to Grafton Street any better than Euro Disney can compete with prototype theme-parks in Anaheim or Orlando. Maybe this copy-phenomenon explains our latent insecurities, which oftentimes induce an inferiority complex hidden by rampant self-justification or over-inflated egos (as exhibited in this article). Like the Academie Francaise, clinging to an exaggerated notion of French linguistic purity, Quad residents are prone to overcompensate for self-doubt inspired by the general consensus that...
...including "facts" (like the size of the graduating class in Currier House) that are so easy to determine that no one in their right mind would lie about them, then juxtaposing them with the latent skepticism that all students mindlessly direct toward the administration, and then coupling them with a bogus "computer program" whose workings are sufficiently ambiguous, you have just started a rumor that requires no more effort from you whatsoever. Before you can say "I'm not sure if it's true, but..." at least four hundred students will start looking for ways to cut those extra five...
...Horowitz...." What I said was that the intellectual tradition of the left provided the paradigms that caused self-styled progressive and Marxist governments to kill 100 million of their own people, in peactime, in order to realize their impossible dreams. I further said that while utopianism is primarily now latent in the ideologies of the left, its Siamese twin nihilism, with all its socially corrosive attributes, is not. It is these destructive paradigms and these impossible dreams that are indeed dangerous and that are stil vibrant in the curriculum as taught on campuses like Harvard...