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While Harvard anticipated that Brown would pack the defensive end against a potent Crimson offense, the Bears decided to leave the midfield thin and send a number of players forward...
...this upheaval was inevitable, ever since a thin red line was drawn, separating what was known as haute couture ("high sewing") and prt--porter ("ready-to-wear"). Yet the walls couldn't stand forever, and as more designers like Donna Karan and Ralph Lauren divert energy to lower-end lines, high fashion is in danger of becoming a sterile status symbol. On the other hand, many new designers working outside of the houses associated with haute couture are doing work that challenges the very term haute couture. This is the "apocalyptic" upheaval that causes many to predict...
...Mara is compulsive, jealous, hyper-analytical and destructive. She "walks as if the floor is thin ice. She checks beneath the cushion of a chair before sitting; she counts the knives in the silverware drawer." Through Mara, Budnitz explicates mental illness and the rationality of murder. This is too ambitious for her plot and narrative, especially given Mara's stream-of-consciousness rants. Had the rest of the novel not been so richly descriptive, this technique might have been effective. Instead, each thought staggers, laden with a false sense of importance and significance...
...Being John Malkovich is wack. And I don't mean that it's incomprehensible--like Mission Impossible or The Thin Red Line. The movie is so deliberately logical and well thought out that you find yourself nodding with your mouth wide open in shock. (You gotta love Spike Jonzes. First came that prank he pulled on the MTV Video Music Awards as a slightly retarded "dance troupe" leader, then came the scene-stealing in Three Kings and now prancing Malkoviches! He might single-handedly move us out of the Adam Sandler/Farrelly Brothers gross-out comedy era.) Critics are comparing...
Slicing a red pepper into thin, elegant pieces, Harvey C. Mansfield '49 sips a glass of red wine a la Julia Child. "I have never made cupcakes before," he said, responding to a suggestion that they be served for dessert. "I once did baking powder biscuits." As a junior high schooler, Mansfield took Home Economics. "They taught us how to sew on a button," he recalls painfully. "This might be quite useful...for a man without a wife...