Word: reaction
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...anything like last year, it will provide the kind of culmination fitting for the most dominating player on America’s most statistically dominant defensive line. Because when Berg finally watched the tape of the 2005 Harvard-Yale contest, a game he played in, the reaction was one that even he would have never predicted.“You don’t truly realize it when you’re playing the game, because there’s so much going on,” he says. “But when I watched it from a spectator?...
...ability to move through society unmolested is one that I will never fully understand. Egypt has seen a rise of religious conservatives (and with that, of veiled women) in the past 50 years—a phenomenon that has been attributed to everything from a reverse-Orientalist political reaction to the reclamation of the hijab as a symbol of female empowerment and choice. Neither justifies what I see as a physical symbol of self-denigration that, consciously or not, has kept women in the Arab and Muslim world in a subordinate social position as a whole. The hijab presupposes that...
...really had to pay attention to people when they were speaking to really understand what they were saying.”Another wholly fictional addition to the film is the character of a female copyist named Anna, played by Diane Kruger. Harris’s initial reaction to the character was mixed.“I asked the writers, ‘Why are you introducing this character?’” says Harris.He eventually came around to their point of view, though. “They really wanted to give Beethoven a platform on which to speak...
...doing here?The ad has sparked a lengthy online debate between gamers. Some posters denounce it for being overly “emo,” or for not conveying any information about the title’s gameplay, or even the plot.A more interesting, and often hilarious, reaction has come from a cadre of amateur remixers, whose alternate visions of the ad can be found on YouTube. They feature the original footage set to wildly different musical backgrounds, from the absurd (“Stayin’ Alive” and the “Ghostbusters” theme...
...cried on the air.David Rees felt the same sorrow, confusion, and anger. “In New York City after 9-11 you could literally smell death,” he recalls. “It was dreadful.” But he had an entirely different reaction from those other funnymen. He decided to make a comic strip.Five years later, that strip, “Get Your War On,” (GYWO) has turned David Rees into one of America’s most forceful satirical voices. His success has brought him back to Harvard Square?...