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...against them. The disparitybetween the quality of their actingand the poorly-constructed world theyinhabit leaves the viewer torn betweensympathy and boredom. By the end ofthe film, the viewer is hoping for thereturn of Joleen, not out of concern forTara and James, but out of a desire to seethe credits roll.—Staff writer Rachel A. Burns can bereached at rburns@fas.harvard.edu...
...fierce, demanding parent. He once reduced Eliot to tears during a game of Monopoly. Bernard, a real estate developer, had ordered his son - at the time a boy of 7 or 8 - to sell him a piece of property; Eliot then couldn't afford the rent when a roll of the dice landed him on that property. "He didn't realize his own rights," Bernard told Masters years later, adding that he had taught his son a lesson: "Never defer to authority...
...Spitzer's approval ratings plummeted after his election; it didn't help that not long after becoming governor, Spitzer said to the Republican leader in the state assembly, "I'm a f______ steamroller, and I'll roll over you." Or that when he had a policy dispute with the popular mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg, Spitzer grandiosely said, "[Bloomberg] is wrong at every level - dead wrong, factually wrong, legally wrong, morally wrong, ethically wrong...
...very bright guy, but I think this is going to be just an enormous challenge for him." Paterson is a "get-along, go-along guy," adds Barrett, who says his Republican opponents - despite their affection for Paterson - are "professional predators. And they're just going to roll over...
They are the ones who roll their eyes with that cynical smirk, have a witty retort prepared for any gripe that comes their way, and never fail to note their privileged perspective of the self-indulgence and egomania of us Harvard students (excluding themselves). They direct their patronizing misanthropy at campus “brats,” and come out looking somehow worse—brattier—than their targets...