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Like Gore before him, Kerry won the primary by promising to uphold “Clinton’s legacy.” But centrism minus the vision, the charisma and the conviction ended up equaling risk-free campaigning, which left voters decisively underwhelmed. On election day, he got served...
...factory. The desks and walls are industrial gray, the bulletin boards on its walls lined with frayed red construction paper. The long neon bulbs that hang overhead are suspended by a lattice of steel supports that angle down from what appears to be corrugated tin. Like a Pompidou Center minus the art, a network of unabashedly exposed rectangular ducts, pipes of varying thickness, massive red steel columns, and I-beams lined with coffee-mug-size rivets frame the edges of the room...
Over the past half-century, Fuller’s movies have garnered much more critical appreciation than they ever did during their theatrical releases. Although not exactly B-movies—VES and English Professor J.D. Connor ’92 describes them as “A-minus movies”—they were frequently dismissed in their own time as being excessively provocative and tabloid. In retrospect, however, it is clear that it was exactly this aspect of Fuller’s style that served as a strong influence for contemporary filmmakers like Martin Scorcese...
...invitation promised all the glamour of a final club punch party, minus the exclusivity. On cottony paper, a line of calligraphy: “The Executive Board and members of The Race, Culture and Diversity Initiative request your company at a talk with Reverend Professor Gomes about the History of Final Clubs...
PHILADELPHIA—The Penn football team played arguably its worst 60 minutes of football in three years on Saturday, but it didn’t help the Quakers that they were forced to take on Harvard minus their starting quarterback, Pat McDermott...