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...typical game for the Crimson--one of unrewarded hard work and lousy defense, but even more, it was just plain exciting...
Disclaimer: It's not 'cool' to gush about anything anymore, especially Harvard. Maybe we're all just plain scared of appearing vain, and so don't talk it up. More probably, we just want to fit in, and so never act so happy to be here that it seems we don't belong...
...radical a departure from traditional cola packaging as Generation X is from the Baby Boom. It features a deliberately rather plain font of "OK" against a white background with a narrow red border; a sloppily drawn oval-headed fellow looks out quizzically from in front of a wall and a little box of a house capped with an aerial. The rather casual shabbiness of "OK" is a shameless bit of pandering to the idea of Generation X; evidently we are so fed up with the kaleidescopic self-promotion and colorful hype of Pepsi and Coke that we are helplessly susceptible...
There is a dangerous accumulation of evidence that Clinton operates by the phony physics of virtual reality (appearances, conjurations, evaporating threats, a governance of attitude and feeling) and has not a cold, hard grasp of plain fact. One has a suspicion that Clinton does not know that the reality of reality always wins. Ultimately, in the courtroom of history, life is fair -- and often brutal...
However, Riefenstahl's conviction that an artist has no political responsibility for his or her art will strike most viewers as naive at best, and disingenuous at worst. And the idea that "Triumph of the Will" is not propaganda is just plain impossible to take seriously. Riefenstahl defends herself by saying she was hired by Hitler as an artist to make an artistic film, not a political...