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...every student knows, should you want to have any eyesight left when you receive your diploma, you cannot rely on Harvard lighting during late night study seesions. Instead, students troop to the Coop and plunk down their $20 for the halogen lamp. This is hardly an exaggeration: the number of halogen lamps per room on campus is certainly beyond the n+1 ratio...
...Just plunk down your $7.50 at the beautiful art-nouveau Kendall Square Cinema and hang on for an artistic tour-de-force extravaganza; you'll buy the whole seat but you'll only need the edge. It's good old-fashioned eye candy, and your money won't be wasted. The movie may be pure escapism, but by the end, when the final marble falls into place, you'll be looking out from behind those plastic yellow bars...
...derived from such a familiar source might be (there have been at least seven movie adaptations of it, not to mention an unstoppable stage musical). Lelouch understands that Jean Valjean and his friends, foes and milieu have long since permeated our consciousness, that you can't just uproot them, plunk them down unchanged in modern times and expect anyone to see the result as more than a gimmick...
...movies and music poisoning America's soul? Probably, but not without the millions who plunk down billions for this schlock." Patrice K. Yeatter Duvall, Washington CONGRATULATIONS FOR ADDRESSING THE violence in the media issue [Cover Stories, June 12] with a degree of responsible depth. You not only suggested viable solutions but also respected the intellect of your readership. It's disturbing that more politicians don't exercise the same qualities. Fred Moffett Orange, California...
This past fall, however, The Man wouldn't be sitting at the two-meter point any more, waiting to plunk the ball into the net. How would Harvard survive...