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...rule that I couldn't watch television unless I knew what show was on and what time it was on. I couldn't just turn on the TV. So I only ended up watching about three shows a week," said Velma M. McEwan '00. To make up for it, McEwan used to reenact "MacGyver" episodes. Vanessa P. Bertozzi '00 remembers her deprived childhood as a time of necessary duplicity. "My older sister, older brother and I had to sneak TV when our parents went out. We'd listen for the car coming up the driveway and then...
...McEwan and Bertozzi's childhoods were more privileged than some--there are Harvard students whose families did not own a television during their formative years. Maria D. Bradley-Moore '99 is one such student. "My father thought if we had one, he'd watch it all the time, and my mother reinforced [his decision]. She thought it was a good educational strategy," Bradley-Moore says. Her roommate, Sarah B. Jacoby '99, a Crimson editor, also grew up in a television-free household. "It was stolen Christmas Eve when I was two and we never got another one," Jacoby says...
Griffin's counterpart, John McEwan, did not fare as well, kicking so poorly that sophomore Colby Skelton was only able to get his hands on one punt. That was unfortunate for the Crimson, since Skelton is averaging 9.2 yards per return...
Much of Life After God is well-written. Like Ian McEwan, Coupland has a particular talent for capturing ennui. In "Little Creatures," the narrator muses: "The nomadic lifestyle had taken its toll. I had been feeling permanently on the cusp of a flu, feeling at the point where I just wanted to borrow somebody else's coat-borrow somebody else's life-their aura. I seemed to have lost the ability to create any more aura on my own. "But the failure to move beyond this signals Coupland's main weakness as a writer...
...McEwan fleshes out this skeletal scenario with a hearty dose of psychobabble. Freudian guilt complexes, Buddhist cycles of reincarnation and wells of spiritual self-empowerment roam the script untamed. But eclectic psychodramatic conceits are no substitute for substance...