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Madeleine was disappointed with the results of the article. “It was substanceless. I felt like the issue really didn’t get explained well. It was not at all clear what PSLM had been doing,” she laments. Moreover, the article is factually incorrect. YM’s Assistant to the Executive Editor Molly Rosen writes, “Madeleine and the group camped out inside until finally Harvard consented to raise some of the workers’ wages.” In truth, Harvard agreed only to establish a committee to evaluate...

Author: By M. R. Brewster, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Way Cooler Than Words | 11/8/2001 | See Source »

...ofmusical theater? If you believe it is simply toentertain, to create pretty images onstage andapplaud special effects without even thinking ofthe word "art," then to you I apologize. In thatcase, this is your show; watch it and enjoy it.But if you, like me, want to believe that even thetraditionally substanceless genre of musicaltheater is finally starting to be pushed in a newand meaningful direction--if you want people to beshocked or reborn by Rent rather thancheerfully and contentedly applaud ShowBoat--then think about these words a littlebit more. True, perhaps some kindness should beshown because Beauty and the Beast: TheMusical...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Disney Does Theater With Beauty | 7/10/1998 | See Source »

Finally, there is no reason why the Council should try to take on the characteristics of a sovereign governmental body. It should work altruistically as an agent for students' wishes, not as a breeding ground for future Washington cocktail party cannon fodder. Hopefully, no more of these substanceless, money-wasting ads will appear. Council members spend too much time worrying about their political images, and not enough time finding out what students really want...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: Grovelling for Your Fall Votes | 4/19/1993 | See Source »

...Pesci and Marisa Tomei in a substanceless and unfunny "comedy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Flicks We've Already Seen | 3/5/1992 | See Source »

...FACT, maybe if those of us in the print media stopped being self-satisfactorily obsessed with the notion of television as a weightless, substanceless medium, we and the people behind the cameras would begin to take their subjects more seriously...

Author: By Philip M. Rubin, | Title: Sham and Grist | 12/7/1991 | See Source »

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