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...getting tired of this—even our parents. “The next time you see a skinny, neurotic boy,” my friend’s mother advised, “don’t date him.” Could people like us find love outside the humanities? To freshmen, this question may seem ludicrous. But wait until you actually have a concentration. You will be forced to learn the habits of your discipline: the code words, the inside jokes. You’ll still be able to talk to people from different disciplines...
...touch with many of the friends he made in his early acting days. At Harvard, Polk says, the theater scene has allowed him to form “relationships and friendships with some of the most amazing people he’s ever met.” His love of performing has affected every layer of his college experience, and although he is intrigued by the idea of a career in politics down the line, he is hoping to pursue acting or score a job as a comedy writer after he graduates.Despite the race to finish his History and Literature...
...failing attempt at humor with wonderful, nuanced performances, charming creative vision, and a healthy dose of lighthearted fun.Tolchinsky (Nate Johnson) must educate Sophia Zubritsky (Jamianne Devlin) in 24 hours or risk falling victim to the village’s curse of stupidity. Unfortunately for Tolchinsky, he falls in love with the beautiful, but extremely dim-witted, Sophia. The lack of chemistry between Johnson and Devlin makes the asinine love story feel even more implausible than originally written, but the individual performances of the two actors easily compensate for this weakness. Johnson is especially delightful, playing Tolchinsky with an endearing earnestness...
...just supposed to run away from every guy that doesn’t like me?...Then there’ll be nobody left.” But despite her initial helplessness, Gigi avoids degenerating into sheer cynicism, and instead asserts her right to hope for love. Further, the film does not shy away from the more painful and awkward sides of relationships. In fact, watching people play out these relationships on screen, rather than reading about them in a book, makes the tension both more palpable and more relatable.While this may not be the ideal Valentine?...
...lone struggle for survival. This struggle is manifested in a search for vital signs of Lithuanian identity—a quest that’s fruitless until Vargalas stumbles headfirst into a live pulse: Lolita, the determinedly unchaste daughter of a brutal KGB colonel. In typical tragic fashion, a love story unfolds between the pair, but it becomes clear that Lolita is, like the rest of Lithuania, damaged goods—corrupted as much by the sinister “Them” as by her own submissive will. In encountering Lolita, Vargalas’ fragile paranoia is thrown into...