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...were talking about bestseller lists. “Bestseller lists are like the Top 40 in music or presidential campaigns,” Pinker said. “Chance fluctuations tend to be amplified.” Pinker united with fellow literary luminaries Robert Pinsky, Leslie Epstein, and Maureen McLane to decry bestseller lists at an event called “The Best Recommended: A National Book Critics Circle Project,” co-sponsored by the Harvard Book Store and held at the Brattle Theatre on Wednesday, Feb. 6. The National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) started...
...choreographer and director who has proved to be without peer in taking faded old musicals (Wonderful Town, Pajama Game) and giving them a fresh modern shine. Here she keeps everything sprightly and speedy without overwhelming her young stars. The dance numbers go for group precision over virtuoso acrobatics. Derek McLane's sets are bright and witty, from the stacks of school lockers or cars at a drive-in movie, to the neon ice cream cone that opens to reveal the hunky Teen Angel in the terrific "Beauty School Dropout" number. Marshall has beefed up the original score with the excellent...
...undergraduates were shocking enough, these victims were only two of seven undergraduates total who died during the winter break of 1956. During the holidays, three other students—Thomas S. Gates III ’56, Myron T. Herrick ’57, and Jedediah H. McLane ’58—were killed in a fire during a ski trip in Canada, and two more—Winthrop P. Smith ’58 and John J. Woodward ’59—were found dead both due to “apparent suicides...
...Dennis Kucinich's volunteers--smart misfits who live in a co-op and make decisions by consensus--oddly get along best with the John Edwards folks, who are preppy, racially diverse, good-looking Southern jocks. Before she dropped out last week, Carol Moseley Braun had exactly one campaign volunteer, McLane Heckman, 15, who used his allowance to print bumper stickers and laminate signs at Kinko's. Heckman has been contacted about joining the Kerry campaign. "I haven't been wowed yet," he says. "But once I make my decision, I'm going to milk it for all its worth...
...Maureen McLane is a junior fellow of the Society of Fellows. Yvonne Rainer is a visiting lecturer in VES. Laura M. Slatkin is an associate professor of classics at the University of Chicago...