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...children are flirting with middle age without much to show for it. Wendy is an unproduced playwright prone to bad fantasies (health) and good ones (she imagines she's won a Guggenheim fellowship). She's having an affair with a remarkably agreeable married man (the excellent Peter Friedman) that's not going anywhere, and she has an obscure desire to make up for past hostilities by placing her old man in a fancy nursing home. As her brother Jon points out, the patient really won't be able to discern the difference between that and more affordable accommodations. Jon, however...
That makes me a bad person. But I must not be alone, because America has a new favorite Christmas movie. A Christmas Story, the 1983 tale about Ralphie (Peter Billingsley), a 9-year-old in 1940s Indiana, and his lust for a Red Ryder air rifle, is everything Wonderful Life is not: satiric and myth-deflating, down to the cranky store Santa kicking Ralphie down a slide. ("You'll shoot your...
German professor Peter J. Burgard warned last spring that “we should not have a Harvard version of RateMyProfessor.com...
...beginning of the afternoon session, defense attorney E. Peter Parker questioned his client briefly. When asked multiple times why he lied in his initial reports to police, Pring-Wilson said, “It was my impression at the time that I was the only victim...I just wanted to go home...
...Judges by the same mark. Saber, too, fell below its potential, losing to Brandeis, 5-4, despite crushing BC and MIT 7-2 and 8-1, respectively. “We’re not as strong as we were in years past,” Harvard coach Peter Brand said. “I expected more from our saber guys...and our saber team is not as deep as we were last year. I’m a little disappointed because the saber squad is stronger than [Brandeis], and they beat us, and that shouldn’t happen...