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Never mind that the Senate Ethics Committee's Democratic counsel urged that the charges against McCain be dropped. Or that in the end he got a slap on the wrist for showing "poor judgment." Nearly half the voters in his home state said they thought he should resign. The scandal was so damaging that it all but erased the Story. Now McCain's homeric epithet was no longer War Hero. It was Member of the Keating Five, as though his medals had been publicly stripped from his chest...
From the first dance scene in which the Follies Girls make their grand entrance, wearing striking red-sequined costumes highlighting their vivacity, to the full company dancing-and-singing numbers "Girls Enter Nevada," "Slap that Bass," "Tonight's the Night," "I got Rhythm," "The Real American Folk Song," and the Finale, the audience can be assured seamless choreography paralleled by impeccable singing. Choreographer Kimberlee Garris ??, co-captain of the Crimson Dance Team, has put together routines that are not only perfectly executed by the dancers, but truly original; one of the best parts of the show is during a musical...
Furthermore, the implication that the dinner was purposefully scheduled to coincide with World AIDS Day is at once silly and offensive. As has been repeatedly stated (in The Crimson's own article covering the dinner, no less) the coincidence was just that--a coincidence, not an intentional slap in the face to the gay community, or for that matter to anyone concerned with or suffering from the disease. Like most Harvard students, we plead ignorance to knowing the date of World AIDS Day. And what is The Crimson implying, anyway--that conservatives favor the spread of AIDS...
...really a slap-in-the-face," one officer said...
When it comes to Norman Rockwell, we all know what we're supposed to think. Rockwell is to modern art what Robert Mapplethorpe is to family values--a slap in the face to all serious standards. So much the worse that for decades he was the best-loved American artist, at least until he was usurped by an even shrewder judge of the national disposition, Andy Warhol. To the art world Rockwell was an exasperating holdout, the man who didn't care that in the 20th century it was simply uncalled for to paint sweet-tempered vignettes in a representational...