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...went with some friends to see "Mean Streets." After the shock of "Taxi Driver" - which I saw maybe 20 times, leading to my move to NYC - I was looking for anything else by this guy Scorsese. Sitting there in the dark as the typewritten credits flashed on the screen, there was this SOUND. The main title for "Mean Streets" was, of course, "Be My Baby" by the Ronettes, which I had somehow slept through on its first appearance...
October is a cruelly busy month, and with the temperatures dropping, sitting at home, watching the world go by on the computer screen (somewhere between the response paper and the thesis prospectus) may seem all too comfortable--in that uncomfortable, stressing way that Harvard can be comfortable.. But do your duty--tell the presidential search committee what you think of President Rudenstine (like the fact you have never met him) and what the next President should do differently. Address it to Harvard University Search Committee, Loeb House, Cambridge 02138 (it should go through University mail without trouble...
...favorite SNL regular Tim Meadows brings Leon Phelps to the big screen in all of his pimping glory, complete with afro, disco threads, and that ridiculous lisp. With a much longer time slot to play with, the filmmakers really got a chance to flesh out the details of Leon's womanizing world, from the love candles, Kama Sutra posters, and bottle of Courvoisier that grace his radio booth when he's on the air, to his bachelor pad-a boat house that he fittingly calls his "Skank-tuary." And of course, we get to hear all the best Leon-isms...
Embry blames the uprising on uneven rule enforcement and poor management, and insists that better leadership and faculty selection will prevent a recurrence. He also believes that the school needs a mix of kids, not just ones who have been disruptive, and that Baraka needs to screen out students with serious psychological problems...
...merchandise store, waiting more than three hours in line to buy silly-looking slippers. They would have gone to a staring contest if it had been a medal event. Live theater performances, including Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida at the Opera House, came to a halt while a big screen showed a particularly anticipated race. The denigrating humor was merely a contrasting shade in a riot of eagerness and team spirit...