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...follow it religiously - beyond religiously. I carry my own food with me everywhere I go. I take apart restaurant menus everywhere I go. I kind of tick off a lot of chefs in restaurants because I'll say, "You can keep all of the sauce, keep all of that garbage - just give me that piece of fish. Forget the salad dressing, I don't need all of that extra stuff. Just give it to me straight up, and I'll eat it." And it works. Right this minute, I happen to be standing in my kitchen, and I'm making...
...house parties, there are signs that his cool competence may help carry him past the surging Huckabee. When, taking a break from Bowl games, partygoers tick off their reasons for supporting him, it is a shopping list, not an argument: "He'll secure the border, fight terrorism and protect family values," says a woman in a fuzzy purple sweater in Ankley. In general, they do not talk about how they feel about Romney at all. There is none of the teeny-bopper swooning that erupts in Obama's wake, or the easy laughter Huckabee can summon with a drawling punchline...
...Harbor. “The picture means a lot to me because I am a pretty patriotic person,” said Tennant. “It also reflects my desire to really understand my family and random people that I meet. I want to know what makes them tick, what they love about their lives.” This eager and unassuming friendliness has characterized Tennant’s past four years at Harvard, whether it be as the vice president of the Harvard Student Agencies (HSA), the captain of the JV basketball team, or the first class marshal...
...tick, tick...BOOM!,” main character Jon (Derek S. Mueller ’10) humorously agonizes for a whole song—whimsically titled “Sugar”—over the process of buying a Twinkie. He compares it to trying to buy a pack of condoms: both involve the characteristic guilty body language, the overt attempts at subtlety, and the cashier’s tendency to nip the purchaser’s unobtrusiveness in the bud. A few scenes later, Jon’s best friend reveals that he is seriously...
...senior what his or her plans are for next year and you’re likely to see an expression that’s part frustration, part confusion, but mostly panic. Centering on the life of a struggling composer, Jonathan Larson’s play “Tick, Tick…BOOM!” channels all these emotions in full force. The play will run Dec. 6-16 in the Adams Pool Theatre. Larson, who is most famous for writing the popular musical “RENT,” largely based this earlier work...