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...like to trap any writer - especially one as good as Mamet - in my expectations. He surely has a right to reach for a new manner whenever the spirit moves him. But the LA demi-monde he's exploring (often with his shrewd observational skills fully intact) seems to cry out for the intensity of expression that made plays like Glengarry Glen Ross and movies like The Verdict sing with a sort of atonal harshness, helping them transcend the rather confined situations he prefers. Redbelt (the title refers to the highest honor available to jiu-jitsu fighters), despite its novel milieu...
...peaceful” atmosphere. He claims he is interested in changing the public perception of death. “I find the public portrayal of death on TV and on the Internet violent and cruel; it lacks grace and respect for the human spirit,” he wrote in a recent Guardian article. “People used to die within the family. These days, many die in hospitals, locked away from the public...
...many current students, the objectives of prefrosh weekend were more concrete but similar in spirit, generally ranging from “get them drunk” to “get them laid.” This surprises no one: Harvardians are always eager to establish their partying bona fides, and ever-hopeful that next year’s crop of freshmen will be both hotter and less awkward than those that came before...
...Harvard has about as much team spirit as it does depth...
...Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.” The show will go on Thursday and Friday in the Cabot House Junior Common Room. Originally three hours long, the musical opens on Thursday as a lighter, two-hour version. The production is full of Cabot House spirit, from the cast to the production staff and the director. Susan Livingston, a Cabot House administrator, says, “We are unique in Harvard undergraduate theater in that when we say a house production, it truly is only Cabot House students, administrators, and me.” Several cast members, including...