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...terms of box office megamillions. The idea was to earn enough to entice someone into financing your next picture. (Jean-Luc Godard had done this successfully in France in the 60s; Robert Altman adopted that model for his pioneering 70s works.) Most films by the most gifted Americans were present-day dramas that picked at some social scab until, in the last reel, it burst...
Even in 50 years, when the Houses are clustered around the student center of present-day dreams and stories of the walk from Mather to Pfoho have reached epic proportions (uphill...both ways), undergraduates will still be sharing money, space, books, and time with their graduate peers. The sooner this becomes a good thing, the better...
...courses like this go, our love of ourselves and our present-day culture will deprive faculty and undergraduates alike from a long perspective on their place in the world,” Ozment wrote...
...Austrian capital's State Opera house on Feb. 23?and if you haven't got one of the 5,000 or so tickets yet, you'd better start working the phones. To the old-money types and aristocrats that once made up the bulk of the guest list, the present-day event has been diminished by the inclusion of pop singers, politicians, movie stars and even (shock, horror) the odd porn actress. A ban on smoking, instituted at the 2004 ball, has been another blow to the faithful, as has the introduction of contemporary music (nowadays you can boogie...
...restore your sense of wonder on Feb. 23 - and if you haven't got one of the 5,000 or so tickets yet, you'd better start working the phones. To the old-money types and aristocrats that once made up the bulk of the guest list, the present-day event has been diminished by the inclusion of pop singers, politicians, movie stars and even (shock, horror) the odd porn actress. A ban on smoking, instituted at the 2004 ball, has been another blow to the faithful, as has the introduction of contemporary music (nowadays you can boogie and salsa...