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This lesson simply makes practical sense, and luckily I didn’t need to learn it the hard way. The idea of the drive-in is romantic in its own right??regardless of the bizarre subculture that has developed around it. There is no better place to watch Hollywood stars than under the stars. (Although, I have to say, last summer I watched The Matrix outdoors, and by the end I was shivering cold with an excruciating cramp in my leg.) Being outdoors is nice, and so is watching a movie: why not combine the two? Better...
This is not to say that I haven’t been looking forward to senior year, which, after all, seems to have a lot to recommend it: Roommates returned from sojourns abroad! Being 21—finally! Senior Bar! The right??nay, responsibility—to radiate a mature disdain for overeager first-years in section! The acquisition of business suits and of stockings and of shiny, pointy-toed pumps! My own bedroom! After the housing lottery, my roommate had to forcibly restrain me from visiting our new room with a tape measure. I had wanted...
It’s tempting to just say Democrats should grow some cajones and confront the right-wing taboos head on. But until Americans look beyond the “liberal” label, there’s not a lot Democratic politicians can do about the Right??s knuckle-headed policies. And if voters don’t get informed, our rude awakening is going to arrive, sooner or later, in the form of a national economic smackdown...
...that prides itself on the living standards of its students, it is remarkable that so many of us are deprived of TV, a truly elemental part of the American lifestyle. The situation is not the university’s fault—no one has the “right?? to a TV—and in fact it is students who are depriving themselves of the simple pleasures of the sitcom and the important if incomplete information disseminated nightly through the TV news filter. This is not only a problem because it creates crises like...
Isaacson, who successfully lobbied for the Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights Act, passed by the Massachusetts legislature in 1989, argued that “might makes right?? already exists in practice...