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Saliba “came really close to me,” Columbia graduate Lindsay Shrier says in the film. “He moved down his glasses, and looked right into my eyes and he said, ‘See you have green eyes.’ He said, ‘You’re not a Semite. He said, ‘I’m a Semite. I have brown eyes. You have no claim to the land of Israel...
...idea of calculating head proportions fascinates Zachary L. Shrier '99, who says he believes that size does matter. "I tend to think I have an above-average size head." He came to this conclusion after measuring his own head at the Coop. While most seniors defer to head professionals, he just grabbed a tape measure and did it on his own. To his horror, he discovered that his head falls between two hat sizes. "I could either get a nice snug cap and get a headache or get the bigger one and have it falling over my eyes," he says...
...Although Shrier admits he is nervous about what will happen to his cap on June 10, he says all he cares about is seeing Alan Greenspan. And when all the caps fly, that quarter of an inch difference won't matter anyway...
...play's clumsyclosing monologue, is that adulthood is aboutchoice. This idea about the dangers of growing upwas revelatory when we, growing up, actually beganto discover it for ourselves: it was notrevelatory when we figured out that this was thesubject of The Jerusalem Disease, and itbecomes boring by the time Shrier actually forceshis narrator to explain it. The unsubtlety of theplot is compounded by the clumsiness of thedirect-address monologue through which the moralis conveyed: the play begins and ends with thecentral character, Noah Feldshriber--played byJuri E. Henley-Cohn '00--helping the audiencethrough any possible confusion...
...learning author: itsweaknesses are inevitable, if sometimes painful(as when, in the play's most emotional moment, twoof the students scream at each other because itseems that Efi Weisbard, driven by his newreligiosity, convinced Jason Rosner's sister toquit the tennis team), but its strengths are oftenredeeming. Shrier's dialogue is usually very goodand can be very funny, as well: he does awonderful job of capturing, and director JesseKellerman '01 does an admirable job of harnessing,the quirks and mannerisms typical of the subjectcommunity. In a play whose strongest point was itssensitive and accurate portrayal of OrthodoxYeshiva life, the actors...