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...Europe, and premiering in the U.S. this Friday), 007 sits alone in the first class compartment of an international flight, slamming martinis to forget his worries. When asked by a colleague what he's drinking, a foggy Bond can't respond; the bartender answers for him. (Read Richard Corliss' review of the film...
...plucky, plain little waif from Nowheresville, the chance discovery, the lucky break, the pieces of a fabulously successful and lucrative career magically magnetizing together. (For a lengthier and smarter consideration of this topic see the late David Foster Wallace's "How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart," an extended review of Austin's Beyond Center Court: My Story collected in Wallace's Consider the Lobster.) And they have a funny mirrors-within-mirrors, mise-en-abyme effect: they pull back the smooth glossy surface of familiar images and show us the rough, grainy verso. Despite being outside the boundaries of anything...
...From there Moore stepped easily into the lethal tuxedos of 007 (Read Richard Corliss' review of the new Bond film, Quantum of Solace). There are no bombshells in My Word Is My Bond, or if there are Q must have cleverly disguised them as fart jokes. But there is plenty to interest people who avidly consume, as I do, the trivia pages of the Internet Movie Database. It may interest you to know, for example, that during the filming of Live and Let Die, Moore's first outing as Bond, he had a kidney stone episode for which he took...
...executed in this isolated case.His regrettable and oft-publicized remark aside, Summers applied the same approach of intellectual provocation throughout his stewardship of the University, and with great success. Under his leadership, Harvard’s endowment continued to flourish, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences commenced a full review of the obsolete Core Curriculum, and the revolutionary Harvard Financial Aid Initiative was conceived. Above all, Summers restored the University’s focus on the undergraduate community, a major shift in culture and policy that continues to benefit undergraduates today. It would be a mistake to allow all that...
...Lowell resident, is a sociology concentrator from Maine. He is now in his third year as a UC representative, and his second year as treasurer.Wong, an Eliot resident, a philosophy major hailing from London, is co-president of the Harvard Hong Kong Society, managing editor of the Harvard Review of Philosophy, and a member of the Bach Society Orchestra.COMPETITIVE ELECTIONObservers are predicting an intense election. Unlike last year, said UC representative Maia Usui ’11, referring to the tickets led by UC insiders, “candidates will be able to bring forward comparable track records...