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...hers is a less intriguing and iconic story. Otilita—we learn this is her given name only in the last fifty pages of the book—first appears as Lily, an exotic Chilean schoolgirl who captures the hearts of her upper-class Peruvian classmates, including the protagonist Ricardo, who is known throughout the book as “good boy.” When she disappears after she is discovered to be neither Chilean nor upper-class, Ricardo, already lovestruck at the ripe age of fifteen, fears he will never see her again. But he does...
...shared controllers. As Brian T. Ru ’11 took a break after the first round, he said, “It’s like an adrenaline rush.” Meanwhile, a Microsoft employee, dressed in a green suit in the style of the Halo protagonist Master Chief, stood solemnly behind players and posed for pictures. “The suit is extremely heavy and hot, especially since the fan system inside stopped working,” he said. “I recommend it as a weight-loss system...
...Crossing Guard” (1995). “There were complications in the family, and also a lot of balancing of sensitivities and responsibility in telling the story.”Nevertheless, Penn insisted that the life of Christopher McCandless, the film’s protagonist, make it to the big screen, saying that audiences needed to witness McCandless’s pursuit of a meaningful life beyond the conventions of society. “There are those who will look at this as a spoiled rich kid who ought not have to put himself and his family?...
...Colonel’s obsession to use a double agent, a philosophically disillusioned North Vietnamese man, to trick the Vietcong into thinking that some crazed commandos have stolen an atomic bomb and are trying to detonate it in Hanoi.Skip, the self-loathing, introverted CIA underling who acts as our protagonist, serves as the Colonel’s point man for this operation. The deception, the Colonel believes, will force the Vietcong’s hand and lead to victory for the Americans. But like so much else in the book, this plan never comes to fruition, instead ending in half...
...events of “Bent,” showing at the Loeb Ex through Oct. 15, are rooted in historical fact. Yet protagonist Max, played by Joseph “Jack” Cutmore-Scott ’10, is powerful largely because of his sense of disbelief and his desire not to acknowledge what is happening, especially during the play’s wrenching second...