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Harvard paints a very different portrait of Minuto and his transfer application—that of a mediocre student and athlete who misrepresented himself to both the coach and the admissions office...
...selling Portnoy's had on popular culture in 1969. TV comics and gossip columnists talked incessantly about Roth and his scandalous book, often speculating about the author's personal life. Surely, so the wisdom ran, Portnoy's was really autobiographical; how could Roth have created such a vividly persuasive portrait of a man in hilarious turmoil except by actually being that...
...Rent opened. Now one of his earlier works, Tick, Tick...Boom!, has been revived off-Broadway. It's a slight, autobiographical piece (with a script worked over by David Auburn, author of Proof) about the struggling composer's own angst at reaching his 30th birthday. Yet this Portrait of the Artist as a Young Neurotic makes up for its self-involvement (Jon tries to get his agent on the phone; Jon gets an encouraging phone call from Stephen Sondheim) with sincerity and self-deprecating wit, along with Larson's passionate, rock-inspired music. He was trying to push the musical...
...demeanor was doubtless the deciding factor. He can be seen in only four films: "The Man Who Fell to Earth" (1976) (as a journalist, in the restored version), the documentaries "The Queen" (1968) (where he judges a drag contest) and "Burroughs" (1983), and the infamous Rolling Stones film-portrait "Cocksucker Blues" (1972). The last-mentioned has never been officially available (the Stones hate it - but tend to excerpt it in their authorized video compilations), but it offers the longest glimpse of Southern onscreen. Shaggy and stoned, he dallies with what appears to be a powder as he declares "Cocaine...
Thank you for the complex portrait of teenage school shooters behind bars [SOCIETY, May 28]. Most of them are not heartless villains. They feel great anguish over their crimes, and often yearn to make amends. Their crimes stem not so much from innate evil as from heedlessness, impulsiveness, mental disorder and immaturity. Which of us would like to receive a lifetime sentence for things we did in our boisterous, unstable youth? ROSWITHA M. WINSOR Chestnut Hill, Mass...