Word: slates
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...case of Riding in Cars With Boys is well-founded. The story is real and gritty—what could, given the right turns of phrase—be the stuff of a great autobiographical novel, but what is perhaps too pedestrian for the film’s slate. Unless director Penny Marshal pulls out all cinematographic stops and carries the film on aesthetic sails alone, the prognosis for Riding in Cars looks grim. At the very least, their pusillanimous, even deceitful, refusal to submit to critical treatment will be a self-fulfilling prophesy of sorts. It is a telegraph...
...Slate is a perfect example. Essentially, it is a bunch of extremely nice, WASPy-looking, middle-aged men selling overpriced stationery. Does this strike anyone else as being slightly peculiar? I go in, spend one minute picking up a $6.95 green-tinted, college-ruled notebook because I’m too lazy to walk to Staples, and inevitably spend five exchanging interminable pleasantries with Mike, the overzealous cashier. It’s like trying to get off the phone with your grandmother. Do I want a bag with that? No? Need a receipt? No? Crazy weather we?...
Another unsettling thing about Cambridge (or rather, Harvard Square and environs) is how nothing completely fits together. The men of Bob Slate would be less strange, probably, were they not a few hundred feet from the piercings and Grateful Dead T-shirts of the Toscanini’s posse. And that hearty artifact from The Era of Male Harvard, Stonestreet, would not seem so conspicuous were it not for the mecca of grunge hip, Urban Outfitters, just around the corner. Nor would the surburban gauntlet of Bruegger’s Bagels, Starbucks and the Tennis Shop seem particularly anything...
Holway says she has tried unsuccessfully to get reporters from Slate, Salon and other websites to apply for Shorenstein fellowships. But online journalists are reluctant to leave a fast-moving industry during slow economic times...
...League play begins on Friday for the Crimson as it plays at Dartmouth, and Coach Weiss believes playing tough non-conference opponents helps prepare the team for the Ivy slate...