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Harvard hasn’t always been so hostile to Hollywood. Numerous scenes from Love Story, the hokey 1970 film starring Ali McGraw and Ryan O’Neal, take place right in Harvard Yard. The movie strove to portray an aristocratic Harvard but was filmed in the midst of peace movements and student protests, so actual students had to remain in their dorm rooms while costumed extras walked through the Yard...
...offense at our youthful emblem of vulnerability, "but there are others who don't consider this a flattering mirror and who wonder if there is not just a little more contempt than compassion for those whom it is your ambition to inform." Or as a Minnesotan put it, "Please portray the American public as it is--grown-up and thoroughly confused...
...Writing about Emma Goldman” to about forty attendees at the Murray Center of the Radcliffe Institute as part of their Brown Bag Lunch Series last week. An anarchist and staunch feminist, Goldman herself is arguably more forgotten than she deserves, and mainstream accounts fail to portray the richness of her character. Zinn’s speech was filled with innumerable digressions—often self-deprecating asides tinged with his dry humor—designed to illuminate her life but shaped by his perspective...
...black people are not a part of and have not contributed to human civilization. The purpose is to see beyond suppression and revision of the historical record. Yet, the fullest appreciation of Black History Month requires the recognition that more than a month is necessary to celebrate and accurately portray the contributions of blacks to our culture...
...Oscars (Russell Crowe’s performance in A Beautiful Mind outshines Penn’s) and may not even get a decent showing at the box office but, to its credit, it manages to portray a mentally challenged person in an entertaining yet dignified manner. It’s true that the protagonist and the schmaltzy movie he leads find wisdom in Beatles lyrics, but hey, nobody’s perfect...