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Wait. It gets worse. Hello, Dolly is one of many versions of The Matchmaker, a play by Thornton Wilder, author of Our Town and other treacly warhorses of the American theater. Over the years, millions of American children have had to sit through what once was viewed as sentimental propaganda and therefore good for them. Many impressionable young people have even been forced to say the line about spreading money around in student productions of The Matchmaker, taking innocent pleasure in the joke about manure while their little minds were being polluted with redistributionist propaganda. While I remember Wilder...
...McCain will not sit down with Ahmadinejad without preconditions,” she said, referring to the controversial president of Iran. She added that the Republican candidate would be willing to “go beyond the United Nations” if necessary in dealing with Iran...
...headless mannequins and tables cluttered with fabric, needles, and thread, Quinn L. Dang ’09 comments on the superiority of this space to past rooms she’s worked in. “We had this small costume shop in high school...you’d sit there costuming for hours. It was tiny and stuffy—we called it the shop of horrors...
Richard Ashcroft must be really picky about the benches he chooses to sit on. In The Verve’s new video for “Rather Be,” there doesn’t seem to be any other explanation for the four minutes the lead singer spends wandering in circles amongst the trees on Gloucestershire’s foggy, barren May Hill. However, once (or if) you get past the repetitive monotony of the video and listen to the song’s lyrics, it becomes a somberly beautiful reflection about the need to tune...
...achieved ubiquity has become a truism. I mean, Christ, with the upcoming campus performance by Girl Talk and links to the Ratatat remixes being sent out over house lists, even the Harvard community is up on it. Most attribute this popularity to the inability of the modern public to sit down and listen to a full song and the lack of proper record stores. In fact, I think the truth is that a great many people like good music—it’s just that they’re sometimes not willing to search for it, or aren?...