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...instance, in one memorably rendered scene, Alwa at length observes a portrait of Lulu picturing his lady when she retained the purity she no longer pretends to in real life. This life-and-art contrast enhances the production’s drama, and the message resounds in a way that is particularly profound...
...website containing an archive of internal e-mails, publicly accessible until it was discovered by The Crimson late last week, provides a rare glimpse into the secretive Harvard final club scene—and a portrait of a five-year-old all-female club struggling to find a place within...
Many thanks for your recent op-ed (“Stemming the Tide,” Oct. 13), with its bracingly dire portrait of Harvard’s plague of student clubs. Its author, Adam M. Guren, shows an excellent and most perceptive contempt for the young. It is something I have experienced myself, this contempt, strolling through the Yard, assailed at all sides by bankers’ boys in blazers and jeans like a bunch of dime-store White Stripes, girls furred in leg warmers against the warmth of the May, and each one of them First Secretary...
...place where Londoners gather to debate, celebrate and mourn. Only three months ago, people filled it to cheer the announcement that London will be host to the 2012 Olympics; eight days later, they flocked there again, to commemorate the July 7 terrorist bombings. Sandy Nairne, director of the National Portrait Gallery and chairman of the committee that chose the statue, says the judges wanted to honor the "demotic spirit" of the square as much as its history. Alison Lapper Pregnant fits right in: it's a monument to the strength of a human spirit, and it's impossible to ignore...
...show differs from the policy-heavy West Wing in that it focuses more on the President's juggling of work and family. In one scene, Allen's husband (Kyle Secor) asks the harried head of state whether she has seen their daughter's math workbook. "Under the portrait of Coolidge," Allen says. The show is really more about a working mom than a woman politician. Indeed, Lurie says Allen was inspired mainly by his mother Tamar, a successful real estate agent. The show is apolitical to a fault: President Allen is an Independent and has a knack for taking tough...