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During team-building exercises over spring break, the staff in the Eliot and Kirkland dining halls strove to send each of its 30 members--of all shapes, ages and sizes--across a thin walkway with the help of their colleagues. "We just decided that we were all going to do it and we made it in only eight minutes," Salerno says...
...words a magically transporting physical experience, an illumination and a kind of intellectual drunkenness. In later life, Dan acquired a solidity of middle age, a gravitas, with even an air of the august. But I think of Dan the way he was when I first knew him at Harvard - thin, handsome, dashing in a Slavic style, with high cheekbones and curly brown hair brushed back from his high forehead, and a moustache, and the air of a 19th-century cavalry officer, a Cossack, or, possibly, the leader of a New York City street gang. He had in him the lightest...
...disembodied entity rather than understanding that this sort of correction was ultimately inevitable--that although it was impossible to prevent this mini-crash, it could have been prepared for if people took a step back from "getting rich quick" and looked at the ludicrousness of pulling money out of thin...
Which brings us to Theme No. 2: Nothing Is Different. We were frantic and exhausted two weeks ago, and still are today. We still have to create a brand-new business out of thin air under crushing deadlines and immense competitive pressure for stakes higher than most of us care to consider--i.e., sudden wealth vs. abject humiliation only partly mitigated by the likelihood of landing a new and even more lucrative gig if this one tanks...
...witnesses first-hand the effects of Childers's attack and is mortified and subsequently falls off the wagon. But this, the one aspect of this movie that could be interesting or thought provoking-that Hodges has to defend a friend who he believes to be guilty-dissipates into thin air. Hodges simply forgets all that he saw in Yemen and vigorously defends his friend. The audience keeps wondering where the moral ambiguities are going to set in and cause suspense, but the film has such a clear idea of where it's going that there is no room for Hodges...