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...plan was to max out on leisure, binge on self-gratification until I could take it no more," writes Ayres in his comic satire, the satire part of which is more satisfying than the comic. As a portrait of pre-recession, debt-financed, image-obsessed Los Angeles, Death By Leisure is spot-on in its details, though the British writer succeeds in making the city sound like the worst place in America, full of status-obsessed grifters like himself. Whether it's sneaking into Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch or finagling his way into a studio exec bash, Ayres simultaneously...
...experience yet so flat on the page. And by the fifth time he leaves us on a "cliffhanger," only to resolve the situation two pages later, it's clear that his concept of dramatic tension is a flawed one. But Ayres succeeds best in his doubting moments of financial self-reflection - the kind that everyone seems to be undergoing these days. Is it wise to put everything on my credit cards? Do I really need this caviar face treatment? Or, as Ayres writes, "does anyone my age have any money? Or are my financial issues generational in nature?" A hundred...
...she’s on-stage. “If he likes dressing up in drag,” she warns in “Venus Envy,” one of the highlights of the show, “he might be gay.” Such selective self-awareness is a powerful comedic weapon in the performance, whose steady supply of double entendres can lull the audience into a slight-chuckle comfort zone. Such surprises are a refreshing source of entertainment, and work particularly well to tactfully name drop the show’s sponsors, particularly The Coop...
...first time since 1999, the ballot will also list two self-nominated candidates, who had to petition for over 200 alumni signatures to be considered in the election. Such write-in candidates have historically faced an uphill battle in the voting process. The last self-nominated candidate to win a seat on the board was Nobel Peace Prize-winning human rights activist Desmond Tutu...
President Obama himself, who ran as a self-nominated candidate in 1991 on a platform of divestment from South Africa, failed in his bid, boasting a thin resume pinned on his experience as a former “community development director” and Harvard Law Review president. Among the triumphant that year was then-senior vice president of Microsoft Steven A. Ballmer ’77, a former Crimson business editor...