Word: neuroticisms
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In this case the right thing is also the Christmas thing - the sort of charitable spirit we want kids to absorb from any religious holiday for that matter. In that sense, The House Without a Christmas Tree is also a pleasant reminder of when Christmas was a less neurotic observance...
When two Yalies and a Harvard student get together over winter break, things can only end badly. “Manuscript,” a story of young, backstabbing, Ivy League-educated writers is being performed at the Loeb Experimental Theatre starting Nov. 29th. The Roving Reporter sat down with...
The beauty of the Geico spots is that they play the characters perfectly straight. There are no club-wielding or fire-inventing jokes. The cavemen play tennis, they go to therapists, they order roast duck with mango salsa. As allegorical stand-ins for minorities, they're more complex than the...
Graham Swift has a secret. Lots of them, actually. In seven novels and a collection of stories, he has developed a knack for measuring out his revelations in coffee spoons, saving the best for last. Of course, Swift has a shelf full of other knacks, some nicked from Dickens, Hardy...
Brody does, in fact, have a kind of geeky weirdness, a slight awkwardness on top of his mellow self-deprecating charm that Schwartz says manifests itself, for instance, when he transforms, as he does often, into a "monologuist movie reviewer." Or you can see it in his thwarted dream to...