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...blooming from its bottom corner, it was clear to me that Harvard’s production of this cheesy 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical would be a conventionally warm and fuzzy staging. The setting had not been moved to present-day Iraq, nor had the show’s na??ve optimism been turned into an any sort of ironic post-modernist commentary...
...these reports of events long ago are extremely disturbing. They are part of a past that we have rightly left behind.” While it is true that Harvard’s Secret Court was a horrifying phenomenon, it is hard to believe that Summers could be so na??ve as to proclaim homophobia a problem of the past. The Solomon Amendment demonstrates that discrimination lives and breathes in powerful public institutions. As a university committed to equal opportunity and enlightenment, Harvard must strenuously oppose the Solomon Amendment and its coercive propagation of bigotry and ignorance...
...Leitch’s direction and Hoffman’s na??ve approach, too many audience members will leave The Last Party weary of the U.S. political system and, like Hoffman, still averse to a political system they don’t, or maybe refuse to, understand. If the filmmakers wish to mobilize viewers at all, it’s Frank’s comment which should ring truest; that, in a country where politics will in the near future remain a workable system, the responsibility for voter apathy lies with the people themselves...
...film relies on Ferrell’s hilarious portrayal of Buddy, an incredibly na??ve yet constantly cheery six-foot-man shocked to learn he’s not an elf. Ferrell’s physical comedy talents and amazing execution of lines greatly enhance the film, and though some viewers will be frequently embarrassed as Ferrell makes a fool of himself, it is his ridiculous character that makes watching another predictable Christmas story worthwhile...
...going to football games, dances and, every now and then, their classes. I guess that’s just the way it is for most of us today. Still, it is incredibly upsetting to think that it will take another catastrophic attack to rouse us again from our complicit na??veté. In that vein, let’s take a quick quiz. What work do you have due for tomorrow? What are your plans for the weekend? What level is the terror alert at right...