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...Where the local time is . . . irrelevant.” Tied to nothing but Videt’s own imagination, Feynman’s performance of the Orpheus myth doesn’t work so well—it’s the one time the word “pretentious?? skidded across my brain...

Author: By Richard S. Beck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Space Between' Is Visual Success | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

...people as individuals and their relationships because the play, more than anything else, explores the idea of communicating, of how effectively communicating can act as salvation—communication coming in to save the day when all else fails, when your own faculties fail. Oh God, I do sound pretentious?? It’s, I guess, not just pretending like we’re the first people to do that on stage, but rather staying away from the idea of this being a play about ideas."Flynn hopes that the sum of her efforts will leave the audience...

Author: By Scott A. Zuccarino, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: SPOTLIGHT: Rachel E. Flynn '09 | 10/5/2007 | See Source »

Some said slightly “pretentious?? businesses seemed popular among students. Some said the area needed an eatery with more varied vegetarian options. Most agreed that the Square offered a dearth of dance space. Many, touting the student-run Quincy Grille as a successful on-campus venue, sought relaxed settings with long hours...

Author: By Nathan J. Heller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Discuss Square Business With Developer | 8/1/2003 | See Source »

...insisting that I patiently bear their Austin Powers-esque impressions of me. My English friends, meanwhile, need only to hear that the drinking age in America is 21 before they fall about laughing and refuse to discuss anything else for the next, oh, three months of summer vacation. Being pretentious??because English people can be pretentious and get away with it—I am confused about where my true home really is and feel irrevocably alienated from both of the candidates. I’m a man without a country, constantly having to adapt to life...

Author: By Anthony S. A. freinberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Transatlantic or Bi-Polar? | 4/25/2002 | See Source »

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