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...main couples—protagonists Mirabell and Millamant and villains Mr. Fainall and Mrs. Marwood—are played expertly and each have a few great comedic moments. However, they are by and large stuck with the thankless task of advancing the plot, while other characters reach ever-greater heights of outrageousness around them...
...common, and commonly deplored, for administrations to hire champions of industry for jobs as watchdogs of those industries - the fox guarding the foxhole, essentially. But in 1968, Valenti went an audacious step further. Since his arrival in Hollywood, the liberalization of the screen had begun; American movies, long stuck in a bland adolescence, were suddenly and controversially open to "adult themes": nudity, four-letter words, explicit violence. Valenti headed off the puritan backlash. He persuaded Congress to eliminate the regulatory middle man and let Hollywood monitor its own content...
...sense of ownership is evident everywhere as members of the public, young and old, lean into the double-handed shake of the man they all call Bertie. Some pols "use security as an umbrella" to avoid contact with their electorates, says Ahern. "I'd go bonkers if I was stuck inside." Burnishing his everyman appeal is a gift for mangling sentences as thoroughly as President Bush: he famously warned against "throwing white elephants and red herrings" and "upsetting the apple tart." Ahern dresses like a man of the people, too. U2 frontman Bono has lobbied him on Africa and professes...
...adds that she has at times felt marginalized because of her gender—especially at the beginning of her career, when she worked at Princeton.“It was right after it had become co-ed. It was sort of closed off in many different ways, stuck in 1953,” she says.She tells the story of a colleague at Princeton who said he would write a paper on the taxation of belly button lint if it would get him published.“I remember thinking to myself, ‘I wouldn?...
...Nicola C. Perlman ’09 is an associate magazine editor and history of art and architecture concentrator in Eliot House. On almost all of her water polo trips, she has been stuck in the middle seat...