Word: laurenized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such is the problem confronting Lauren Adler, a savvy first-semester freshman from New Jersey and the heroine of Victoria Silver's latest addition to the genre of Harvard fiction. Before one fateful Wednesday in November, the most serious question that plagues Lauren during her Russian Revolution seminar is which of its 11 students is the most attractive. But then Russel Bernard, the star of both the seminar and Lauren's personal musings, is murdered and his body thrown into the Charles, in a manner that bizarrely recalls the murder of Rasputin discussed in her last seminar meeting...
...this is Silver's eminently successful strategy. To say that Harvard is merely the backdrop for Death of a Harvard Freshman wouldn't be quite fair; most of the plot elements are uniquely Harvard, from the Nietzsche course which sends one student over the brink to the rivalry between Lauren, defiant product of the New Jersey public school system, and a stuffy preppie couple from Exeter. And Silver gets endless mileage out of Lauren's freshman-week-esque enthusiasm over her classmates' brilliance and diversity...
...fallen for him like this? In part it was simply overwhelming sexual attraction: the eyes, the skin, the beard, the hands.... And there were Russell's accomplishments: his story in The New Yorker, his national political lobby. And he did play the violin, not to mention soccer. Lauren was not above being bowled over by some qualifications which had convinced the Harvard admissions committee...
...punctuating it with a hackneyed score and stagey walk-ons: Clusters of bowler-hatted extras mill around aimlessly, while "protesters" wield suspiciously well-stenciled placards. In addition to its amateurism, the film is cheapened by gratuitous flashes of boob and rump' by its main performers (Selleck, Jane Seymour, and Lauren Hutton...
...outstanding event in the Hasty Pudding show is the annual selection of the Man and Woman of the Year, a traditional that began in 1951 with the selection of Gertrude Lawrence Honored stars in the past have included Mamie Eisenhower. Lauren Bacall, and Meryl Streep for the women, and Bob Hope Jack Lemmon and John Travolta for the men The honorees are chosen by the show's producers and the president and officers of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals 1984's woman of the Year, John Rivers will be presented with her award at the Hasty Pudding on February 15 following...