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GRANTED, I'm talking about bigtime lifestyle changes for the sake of a few strands of hair. But as far as I'm concerned, this baldness thing is a matter of principle. A matter of youth...
...obvious promise, but there is a problem: while On the Verge makes for pleasant reading, the dialogue in the context of performance is so "pithy" and high-flown that it quite often floats over our heads. There is no question that Overmyer means to celebrate language for its own sake (he says so in the notes to the play), but this linguistic festival often comes at the expense of the audience's understanding...
...glad that [the Education Department review was closed] for Harvard's sake for two reasons: first, generally they found that Harvard was not guilty of discrimination or guilty of discrimination to a greater extent than any other college, and second, because of the question of whether Harvard would lose any federal grants," said Hoang Quan Vu '92, president of the Vietnamese Student Association...
With each each year in office, Bok has grown more conservative, and more willing to sacrifice crucial values for the sake of tradition or financial success. Ultimately, Bok became an actual obstacle to reform, and he leaves Harvard much the same closed institution it was 20 years ago...his decision to leave was one of the best moves he has made in quite some time...
Translating a written tale into TV drama has its pitfalls. Excessive fidelity to the text can emphasize a story's origins on the page. Departure for drama's sake can suggest that what's onscreen came solely from a script. Those perils are present in 90-minute video anthologies -- something of an endangered species these days, like westerns -- that HBO and Showtime coincidentally offer for late-summer viewing. (Both debut Aug. 19.) Differently flawed, they nonetheless make for more satisfactory evenings than network reruns...