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Yesterday's game saw Harvard prescribe to a formula not normally conducive to victory. The Crimson fielders committed three errors, the pitchers gave up 13 hits and walked five, and the hitters struck out nine times, managing just six hits...
...fact, this was an odd TV moment when parody and plug became one. The Taco Bell Dana Carvey Show was intended to be an ironic resurrection of 1950s-style brand-name TV shows like The Lux Video Theatre or The U.S. Steel Hour. The deal originally struck between ABC and Pepsico, Taco Bell's parent company, was that each week a different member of the Pepsi family would serve as "both title and target" for Carvey's wry satire, positioning the sponsor as quite the cool dude for rope-a-doping a few edgy punches...
...that struck me the most, however, is called "Mom Overboard!" and portrays a woman who left the fast track at work to stay home with her kids. Fed up with a child who called the sitter "Mama" and surprised by the "double-edged knife" of the maternal instinct, Sera stayed home with her children--and ended up micromanaging their every waking hour...
...reading, I kept thinking how familiar all those questions seem. Although many aspects of women's lives have changed since the 1920s--it is now expected and accepted that most women will work, and women are closer to parity with men in jobs than they ever have been--it struck me how many of the questions simply haven't gone away. The dilemma of balancing career and family has not disappeared; it has simply changed form...
While Annenberg was hailed by administrators and some students as an improvement in the dining aesthetic, many first-years agree that the change from the Great Hall to a more spacious facility struck a major blow to socializing...