Word: revelations
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...Liking a Mel Gibson movie (or a T.S. Eliot poem) does not make you an anti-Semite. But it does require that you ask just what you do and don't identify with in it. Apocalypto shows a rage against senseless war and bloodlust, but it also seems to revel in them, and it raises the question of when purity of belief can shade into intolerance. Borat is the funniest movie of the year, but it's reasonable to ask whether our culture has become so anti-p.c. that a racist comic can defend his rant, as Richards...
...cemented Harvard’s somewhat merited reputation as the place where fun goes to die and students go to die virgins. Our single tailgate became a liquor-less, 21+, wholesome, Panopticon party. Sort of like bible camp. The irony of the situation is, well, sort of hilarious. So, revel in the humor and know that field ± sporting event + alcohol + defiant community = fun. The utter absence of Yale students means more alcohol for Harvard students and fewer pranks that nobody notices. (It’s like the mime in a forest question. If a prank happens...
...profit, and do it all over again the next day. The major news networks—and they are “networks” in the sense of being synchronized for the same purpose—have become giant businesses. As a result, those of us who revel in knowledge are blessed with a deluge of it: 24-hour news channels, e-mail updates, and news websites with handheld access...
...it’s obvious some of my peers here don’t exude any enthusiasm for service. While a devoted student contingent serves close to 10,000 clients in the Cambridge area through the Phillips Brooks House Association, most are less generous with their time. Some revel in privileged positions of “high society,” and just the thought of feeding an old woman at a nursery home or picking up garbage at a park wounds their narcissism. Others structure their extracurriculars around careerist goals, sacrificing their souls into the void of ambition. Amidst...
...little of that. But the amazing thing about the show (Bennett's conception, James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante's book, Ed Kleban's smart lyrics) is how seamlessly dance, song and story work together to keep everything alive, emotional and involving. Some of the revelations emerge in neat individual numbers (I Can Do That); others in fuguelike bits and pieces, linked thematically by song (Hello 12, Hello 13). Some numbers revel in the group-grope insecurities we all share (I Hope I Get It); others in brassy satire very particular to the showbiz world (Dance 10, Looks 3 - which...