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Though Europeans mock Americans for having no real culture of their own, there are certain values one never questions in this country. We treasure convenience, as symbolized by drive-through fast food, self-understanding, manifest by easy access to astrology charts at the check-out stand, and—most importantly—the importance of setting goals for the future, embodied in the American dream itself...
...mean-spirited conservative lawyer in denial about his homosexuality and AIDS affliction. Roy is not a likeable character, and when the veins in his neck are prominent and his hoarseness palpable, Glaser makes him seem like the devil. From obnoxiously loud eating habits to a quick instinct to stand upright after being shoved, Glaser adds touching subtleties that flesh out the height of Roy’s Napoleon complex. The unraveling of the Pitts, the play’s Morman heterosexual couple, is perhaps not as powerfully presented as the story of Louis and Prior, but it is effective nonetheless...
...plays Louis Ironson, a gay Jewish man who leaves his AIDS-infected lover. “The main lesson that the directors are trying to push is that you have to struggle with whatever life throws at you, that you can’t stand by and let life just pass you. You have to work with both the bad and good in life.” Because of the balance between tragedy and the supernatural, the show becomes touching without being melodramatic. The characters are passionate and have specific personalities, but the cast and crew strive to make their...
...fresh gesso mingle with turpentine while an eclectic mix of music sets the creative mood. With a couch and a makeshift kitchen, it is clear that many student painters view the studio as a sort of second home and Nancy, as she is fondly called, as a sort of stand-in mother. “Students congregate and sometimes practically move in,” writes former studio teaching fellow Claire W. Lehmann ’03 in a letter addressed to President Drew G. Faust in support of Mitchnick, who will be leaving next year. “Often...
...whole thing has a lot of echoes,” said Allison, who is also a Kennedy School professor. “Harvey is universally regarded as a giant in this domain, so each of Harvey’s successors stand on his shoulders...