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Much of the allure of final clubs depends on the presence of women on many occasions. Yet while using women for entertainment, the clubs retain an enormous measure of control over the social lives of these women. Women are told when they can and cannot attend, where they may enter, and in what rooms they are allowed to go. This imbalance of power fosters an attitude of dominance and superiority on the part of club of members, an attitude which is ultimately destructive not only for the women who attend but also for the Harvard-Radcliffe community in general...
...this project. But as a director he lacks the antic eye that (often enough to keep us interested) rescues Robert Altman from depression and pretension. Tolkin just doesn't know how to position himself -- far enough from his characters to make fun of them, close enough to them to retain our sympathy. And the question of whether they will make a go of Hipocracy, the upmarket clothing store they decide to open, is not a compelling one. Shopkeeping cannot compare to moviemaking and murder (The Player's topics) in dramatic interest. Peter and Katherine don't even bicker entertainingly...
...typical student is going to retain about five percent of what he learns throughout the four years here. What they retain is the process. They become better writers. They analyze issues better," he says. "That's the reason why companies come back here year after year...
...intense, almost humorless Fehr. "Did you see how unpleasant he is?" Ravitch asked rhetorically about Fehr before a joint TV appearance Friday. "It's never been like that in all the negotiations I've been involved in." If the season were to end without a contract, the owners would retain powerful weapons in their arsenal: the legal right under labor law to impose their proposal for a salary cap and the ability to lock the players out of 1995 spring training if they balked. So like characters in a Clifford Odets play, the union believed their only recourse...
...director manages to retain much of Havel's opening, substituting effective lighting design for Havel's curtain (in the script, the opening has two false starts, each cut off by an abrupt curtain), and the dramatic opening acquaints us intimately with the chilling instability of Professor Leopold (Ian Lithgow...