Word: successful
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...their searcch for what sets the album apart. Laden with trends such as predictable guest cameos and treble-heavy synthesized tunes, Ross’s album may as well be titled “Rap.”Ross was propelled into the spotlight in 2006 with the success of “Port of Miami” and its sales-driving hit singles, such as “Hustlin’,” “Push It,” and “Blow,” all of which unabashedly illustrate the rapper?...
...execute it are valid. Raising $600,000 over the summer to put a down payment on 45 Mt. Auburn will be extraordinarily difficult. The UC is not famed for its efficiency or organizational prowess, and it would really have to step up its game to make this project a success. Nevertheless, we are the last who should underestimate the capacity of our peers and the Harvard network. Moreover, centrally situated Cambridge real estate does not come on the market every year, and this opportunity is too favorable to let slip by with a characteristic “It?...
...years from now, we hope that some of these people will be accomplished artists and that they see this investment as the turning point.” From Megan’s perspective, Chazelle’s accomplishments bode well for the relatively new ADF program, as his success legitimizes the effect the grants could have on the future of talented student artists. “Is Damien’s project at the Tribeca Film Festival because of the fellowship? Not exactly,” Megan says. “But did we give him a boost? I think...
...graduate of Harvard College and a 1986 grad of the Business School—on a slasher rampage up and down yuppie Manhattan.Bateman is a true psychotic for sure, but he’s a guy-next-door, red-blooded-American psychotic. His mania is success, his bloodlust is greed, and his pathology is passing. There was a Patrick Bateman—levered back in his chair, feet up on the desk, Walkman blaring—in every office of every building in Lower Manhattan.Vintage eventually picked up the novel, and the rest is history. These days it?...
...movie never gives sufficient evidence as to why or how, but when we first see him, he’s living homeless and schizophrenic in the tunnels and streets of Los Angeles. Enter Steve Lopez (Robert Downey Jr.), an eccentric, popular Los Angeles Times columnist who, despite his professional success, seems to be barely keeping it together. He goes flying over his bike on the way to work, accidentally sprays a bag of coyote urine in his face as he cleans his backyard, and works with his snarky ex-wife (Catherine Keener). With this, the movie constructs the seemingly perfect...