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...Nick, a cocky young professor whom an older college couple (Arthur Hill and Uta Hagen) have fun unmanning on their way to their own, more melancholy accommodation with reality. He also made an impression in a big movie, the political drama Advise and Consent, as a snaky, pre-Cheney Wyoming Senator, trying to blackmail a colleague for an early brush with homosexuality. In my innocent appreciation, I didn't think he was good at playing bad guys; I thought he was a bad guy. Maybe that's why I also assumed that his surname rhymed with lizard. (It's GrizZARD...
...c.31 B.C.E), and sculptures from the Near East, Egypt, and the prehistoric era of the Greek Cycladic Islands. The faded sculptures are placed next to their colored counterparts. This stark contrast between the typical white marble statues and the color-renovated versions forces viewers to break their own pre-established mold of what is considered usual and unusual in ancient art. Now in color, the sculptures are brought closer to the reality that we encounter everyday, where blue and brown eyes, red lips, flushed cheeks, and colored garments are not only presumed but utterly normal. WHOLE NEW CONTEXTS Adding color...
...Joey had no pretense,” said Jessica S. Budnitz, Hanzich’s pre-law adviser in Leverett. “There was no sense of entitlement...
...pre-internet days, neither of us would have even thought of calling each other friends. We'd have called ourselves friends of friends who met once and yet, for some reason, kept sending each other grammatically challenged, inappropriately flirty letters with photos of ourselves attached. Police might have gotten involved...
...looked up from my own pre-dinner brew. A rare moment of clarity for this Psychology concentrator whose blood was probably bluer than his blazer...