Word: shamings
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...messed-up? Tennessee Williams’s “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” a timeless story about a wealthy plantation family who gather to celebrate the birthday of their patriarch and compete for inheritance rights, will put your clan to shame at the Loeb Experimental Theatre, starting tonight. The Roving Reporter sat down with the cast to rake through the Southern underbelly of the production.Benjamin T. Clark ’09 RR: So who do you play?BC: I play Big Daddy.RR: Does the Adam Sandler film “Big Daddy?...
...first journalistic assignments came from an American women's magazine. During a 1994 U.N. population conference in Cairo, CNN had aired footage of the backstreet female genital mutilation of a 10-year-old Egyptian girl. Egypt's conservatives claimed that CNN and the girl's family had shamed Egypt on the world stage. A year on, I was asked to find the girl and do an update. But after a few phone calls in Cairo, I begged off the assignment: the girl was in hiding, fearing reprisals. My editors in New York assumed she'd want to "tell her story...
...lives in a River House 4) The Dump – Dunster House 5) A Poonster – a member of a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine 6) SOS – shuttle-ride of shame home from the Quad 7) Quadling – someone who lives in the Quad 8) The ’Berg – where freshman find their missing 15 pounds 9) Ho-worthy – whatchu gonna do with all that junk? 10) Billy Jim – Williams James...
...rival past “Jewbilation” events, like a discussion with Institute of Politics Fellow Tony Leon, according to an e-mailed statement from Danielle L. Charlap ’09, the president of Hillel’s steering committee. “It was a shame that it was not more widely attended,” said audience member Ilan J. Caplan ’10. “The topics touched on are very important.” The trivia game addressed a variety of Jewish idiosyncrasies, from famous Jewish director Woody Allen?...
...some degree, this lack of intellectualism was a relief: It meant that I didn’t have to worry so much about whether people considered me an intellectual powerhouse, because they weren’t intellectual powerhouses either. It was a shame so few of them read and so few of them cared about the happenings of the world, but at least I felt less guilty when I spent more time freshman year surfing Facebook than thinking about art or culture or politics...