Word: poole
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quite successful. On some nights, people were lined up almost to the Harvard Bookstore waiting to get in." Sellars continued to discover unused and unknown spaces--usually in the bowels of Adams House. He directed Macbeth with three actors in a basement corridor and Antony and Cleopatra in the pool, complete with barge...
...down at my word processor, ready to write. Nothing came out. I was blocked. Blank. The most profound nothingness this side of Proust. I sucked in the primordial void and then barfed till all was meaninglessness, my brain a cranial subterranean pool of anti-meaning...
...theater and, in order to avoid paying reparations, Dewitt quickly mingled among a crowd of film seekers, attentively viewing The Color Of Money (Beacon Hill). Dewitt had seen this movie before and at second look decided he didn't like it. The Color Of Money updates the story of pool-hustler Fast Eddie Felsen (Paul Newman). After years of retirement, Felsen decides to re-enter the billiard biz by tutoring a young hustler named Vince (Tom Cruise), teaching him to love currency more than the game itself...
...problem with this film is that underneath the many cool epigrams about the nature of pool and manhood, and despite the cute directorial tricks of Martin Scorsese, nothing really happens. Felsen's last-minute change of heart is unconvincing, as is Vince's all-too-quick corruption. We never get to see Newman and Cruise square off in a genuine contest and so the conflict between love and money falls entirely by the wayside. It seems as if Scorsese was so afraid of a sappy moral ending that he never bothered to finish the film...
...reception yesterday, Ed School Dean Patricia Albjerg Graham welcomed the six fellows, who were chosen by the Conant Fellowship Committee from an applicant pool of35. The fellows are now eligible for Ed Schooldegrees...