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...There had been high hopes for cool, at least initially. The play is set in Manhattan during the 80s. It takes place almost entirely in clubs and the offices of nifty little literary magazines. Most of its characters are coke addicts. It’s playing in the Adams Pool House Theatre, which used to be an actual swimming pool where Harvard’s artsy types would skinny dip and swap STDs...
...entire lower half of the window was broken, and there were shards of glass everywhere,” he said. “It was really weird—there were pools of blood on the stairs and a pool of blood in the elevator...
Such disparities, she added, reflect a tendency for universities to seek to bolster public image through the diversity of their applicant pool...
...creating dialogue are as well, but for the opposite reason. Smiley allows her egotistical characters to indulge in uninterrupted story recitations—open invitations to reach across the novelistic fourth wall.When Smiley attempts snappy banter, the result is badly scripted conversation. Take this scene at an outdoor pool: Max’s 23-year-old daughter reclines among a pile of towels with her father’s Hollywood agent, a man twice her age. She touches his erection.“She said...
...dwindle. That means the longer Libby can keep the wheels of justice turning, the more likely he is to avoid spending any time in jail. Already the betting on a pardon is running at 65% by the end of Bush's term, and the Washington Post has announced a pool to predict the date. Democrats have called on Bush to swear off a pardon, but that outcome is not likely. If Bush ruled one out now, he might encourage Libby to seek leniency from Fitzgerald in his sentencing phase in return for cooperating with the prosecutor. In his first comments...