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...funny. It is a charming and thought-provoking look into British society, the immigrant experience not seen by the outside world. It reveals the society’s flaws, poking fun at everybody but condemning nobody. Zadie Smith shows the confusion of trying to understand the present in the context of a past that never existed; “The funny thing about getting old in a country is people always want to hear that from you,” Archie muses. “They want to hear it really was once a green and pleasant land. They need...
AMC’s runaway hit “Mad Men” rounded off its third season this past Monday, and once again it is tempting to see creator Matthew Weiner’s depiction of an advertising agency in the early 1960s as a mirror of present times. Praise be to that firey avatar of all things good, St. Joan Holloway, however, that the recent season finale made the more direct of these comparisons seem misguided, irrelevant. Far from a show focused solely on capturing the essence of another time, or even our own time, the season finale...
...show’s set continues the innovative removal of traditional theatrical elements present throughout the production, striving to destabilize and jar the audience. “Attempts” makes ample use of the Experimental Theater, scattering the seats into groups that are diffused across the black box space...
...Present-day artists continue to seek ways to emerge from a hackneyed state of consciousness—where the sky is blue and grass is green—into a kaleidoscopic world where they can discover new possibilities for their work. And despite stereotypes to the contrary, Harvard has a definite community of drug using, and promising, artists who embrace their ability to both connect with one another on various mental levels and break free of the constraints imposed by the insular “Harvard bubble...
Psychology professor Shelley H. Carson affirms the notion that drugs may be less present on our campus in comparison to others. “I would expect there to be less drug use in the artistic community at Harvard, because their ability to be an artist depends on their ability to stay in school,” she says...