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...almost every Halloween season, Christopher said: “People want to be either sexy or scary.”At Mass. Ave.’s busy and crowded Oona’s, a popular second-hand store, owner Kathleen M. White dealt with the Halloween costume rush. She said it’s the 34th the store has seen. A seasoned Cambridge entrepreneur, White knew about the various costume-themed parties happening around campus this weekend.One group of Harvard girls came into the store to pick out pimp gear to wear to Adams House’s Sweet...
...There is a note in my pocket.” In this and other poems, Robinson’s syntax is the best part of her style. The pacing of her language is exquisite. Lines that are formal and decorously slow contrast with punctuation-less lines that rush into one another. Robinson can sustain the tension of a phrase over several lines, even through self-interruption. In “From this miserable mutineer a stutter, / for when we are reading Dostoevsky in caves,” the narrator starts to grandly exclaim “My?...
There were a few especially grueling stages of the process. Fingleton recalls a particular scene in which his father (played by Geoffrey Rush), begins to drink again, after a period of sobriety...
...Hollinghurst and his fictitious alter-ego are far too smart for that.Instead, we meet a brilliant, insecure Oxford grad with an exacting, reverential, and eventually obsessive eye for beauty, whether found in the heights of a Gothic cathedral, the curves of his first lover, Leo, or the electric rush of cocaine. He finds it quite often in the work of his hero, Henry James. The consciously Jamesian touches of both Nick and the novel itself—the hero at once inside and outside a society, the incisive but never-misanthropic critic, the genuine appreciation of beauty, money, and power?...
...upload an unlimited number of images to their personal profiles. Chris R. Hughes ’06, the spokesman for the popular social networking site, said the feature would go live at all schools within about two weeks, but as with the initial rollout, the creators are in no rush. “We wanted to take our time and make sure that we were doing it right,” Hughes wrote in an e-mail. “We thought it’d be better to put out a comprehensive, functional feature rather than rush through something...