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...most joyful moments come not from pithy political insights, but rather from the unexpected bonds which emerge between family members. In one particularly well-realized scene, Varun, the sybaritic and spoilt 11-year-old son, teaches his nervous and rheumatic father to dance in preparation for the wedding celebrations. He is at first reluctant to learn the requisite moves, but in the film’s final scene, the father is glimpsed amongst the crowd dancing with considerable aplomb...
...most joyful moments come not from pithy political insights, but rather from the unexpected bonds which emerge between family members. In one particularly well-realized scene, Varun, the sybaritic and spoilt 11-year-old son, teaches his nervous and rheumatic father to dance in preparation for the wedding celebrations. He is at first reluctant to learn the requisite moves, but in the film’s final scene, the father is glimpsed amongst the crowd dancing with considerable aplomb. Monsoon Wedding is full of such scenes and is a true crowd pleaser. For all its larger-than-life excesses...
...attended. On the Harvard side, it seemed alumni were everywhere, interspersed with College students (as a friendly Yalie from the Class of '69 said, "You're seniors? I'm a senior too!"). And because alums appreciate The Game in a completely different way, putting us together merely spoilt the experience for both sides. The students were standing up and cheering, all excited, and grumpy old men (I use the gender construction specifically) kept telling them to sit down because they "couldn't see the game." Shouldn't someone in ticketing have realized that a large part...
...imagine the demand for tickets changes so dramatically that the ticketing office can't estimate what side people should be on. And how was it that even last week many of my fellow seniors had no clue whether tickets were on sale? The entire ticketing fiasco spoilt my memories of my last Game as a student, an occasion I should have treasured. Ah well. At least this newspaper got an Ibis out of the whole thing...
...York streets populated by freaks, stone-faced cops and ghastly youths of both sexes in Mickey Mouse hats are proof of that: the Mickey Mouse face, he told an interviewer, is "without character or age; for me it represents the junk-food people, the TV children, the spoilt young ones who have all their experiences, inferior as they are, handed to them on a plate." Nobody could say Steinberg was a particularly warm or approachable person. He loathed mediocrity and made no secret of it. He simply knew too much, and in his death he took that knowledge with...