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...freshman, who asked to remain unnamed, his one run-in with a stripper has become a running joke. This year, for a joint nineteenth birthday, he found a surprise stripper in his room. But that wasn’t the present he had wanted, and the crowd of 40 others in his roomed thinned out quickly. “She was very ugly, kind of not a very classy stripper,” he says. “I guess they got her for fairly cheap...
...Public Health (HSPH), claims that binge drinking at universities is as old as the Louisiana Purchase. “Thomas Jefferson complained about it when he was president of the University of Virginia,” Wechsler says. At Harvard, the alcoholic ethos is equally ancient. In the nineteenth century, commencement ceremonies were presided over by a sheriff, several police officers, and two judges in order to control the students’ raucous “gambling, drinking, swearing, and fighting,” Wechsler writes in his book Dying To Drink...
...beyond the physical. While studying at Tufts University, actor Gallagher was part of the singing group The Beelzebubs and went on to perform in musicals, including the Broadway production of Grease. Professor Gallagher, on the other hand, has studied late medieval and renaissance music and culture and plays nineteenth century chamber music...
Chihwaseon is a sweeping historical epic that centers on the legendary nineteenth century Korean painter Jang Seung-up. Seung-up’s personal drama—his alcoholism, womanizing, and bitter struggle against the conservative academy that scorned his humble birth and unschooled talent—takes place in the milieu of the political and social upheaval resulting from and feeding into the Sino-Japanese...
Visually, the film is a delight, and the cinematography should be spared no praise. Deep focus is used expertly to draw attention to the myriad details that comprised village life in nineteenth century Korea: the glowing embers of a tavern hearth, the massive earthen pots keeping sentry at the portals of village hovels, the snow-speckled and hard-trod paths interlacing peasant dwellings. The camera moves deliberately, often pausing over a stark landscape seconds longer than is customary, allowing the beauty of each scene to resonate with the viewer...