Word: reade
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fans commercial messages have to go, what about commercial advertisements in the ball-park? I worry that Budweiser, the Gap, Coke and Pepsi might be booted so that their bourgeois materialism does not reach the Cuban team's virgin ears--as the celebrated billboards that read "Hit this sign, win political asylum" will be. The rituals of the game would still be there but not the spirit...
...knew indicates that the problem may be due to more than just my own ignorance or that of other isolated students. It may also be due to serious deficiencies in publicizing such a policy whose very effectiveness lies in whether it is widely understood. A note in the infrequently-read University alcohol policy hand-book is not sufficient for such an important policy...
These are undeniable reasons why we as members of an entertainment-driven society follow the Oscars, Emmys and other merit-embodied-in-a-statuette ceremonies so closely. We glue our eyes to the television set during interminable self-congratulatory displays and read a slew of repetitious articles that agonize over who will take home that shiny figurine or plaque, all in the name of the cult of celebrity. It has become a cultural responsibility to know who the winners and losers are and, even better, to experience them winning and losing in television's version of real time...
...have a confession to make. When I read poetry, I like to be romanced. I like a poem to take my hand, twirl me around, offer me wine and roses and seduce me into its satin-draped bedroom for the night. I want poetry to move me beyond myself. I want poetry to offer itself up to me body and soul and say "take me, love me and sigh because I am beautiful, sigh because your heart rips apart when I speak...
Nobody ever stops talking at Harvard. Whether it's your T.F. droning on about the 350 pages you haven't read, your roommate endlessly analyzing why Miss Right never looks at him in the e-mail line at Lamont, or the "Spare Change" man by Au Bon Pain going "ooh, beautiful ladies!" someone's always talking. So maybe that's why Meredith Monk's "A Celebration Service"--an interdisciplinary performance based around Monk's powerful non-verbal vocalizations held at Sanders on April 23--was so refreshing...