Word: modeling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Here's how it works. Let's say you are deeply involved in the Harvard Model Ad Board, and this weekend you have to play the part of a student accused of making prank calls to Menu Man. In the days leading up to the event, every second of your time is filled with mock depositions and practiced forced confessions of your heinous model crimes. You tell yourself that you have only sequestered yourself for legal purposes for the next few days, and that on Sunday you will be back to your normal self. But on Sunday, you have some...
...many people brush by you as if you weren't there. All of this takes place in less than 15 minutes, the same amount of time that you would have spent checking your e-mail again and again while sequestering yourself in your room or in the Model Ad Board office. The difference is that time goes by much faster when you worry it away...
...your commitment, or drop them. One of the most believed myths around here is that other people, whether your peers or your future employers, will care whether you wrote a thesis, concentrated in Social Studies, participated in at least two extracurricular activities, or served as chair of the Harvard Model Symbionese Liberation Army. The big secret is that almost nobody cares. When asked about the choices they've made, most seniors will tell you that if they could start over, they would change very little. But the only thing many seem to regret is that they were so often...
...size of cantaloupes. Where did they go? Now you've grown out your hair, dyed it blonde and published what is at best W magazine resized to fit the magazine rack. The best way to celebrate a year of Jane is by having "125 Stars" write, photograph and model the magazine? This from an editor who once told us that one of the "Nine Things About America That Make Us Want to Scream and Throw Stuff" was that "we overindulge our celebrities...
...believe in technology. I don't believe it has helped anything." Well said, Cam! Why are these people interesting? Your personal love letter to Uma Thurman? I mean, I'm sure whatever species she's from, she's a very attractive member of that species. But as a model of anything important? Thanks, I'll take Katha Pollitt. Sure, Matt Damon is cute, like the way your fourth grade class gerbil was cute, even after it ate pencil shavings and died. You proclaim Vincent Gallo "the most brilliant man ever." His photo-essay reads, and I quote, "And my friend...