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...have been a thrill for Harvard undergrads to have a little bit of Hollywood in their backyard this past year, with film crews blocking off Dunster Street and celebrity sightings in CVS. But Harvard's relationship with tinsel town doesn't end where the set begins. To coincide with the release of “Bright Star,” the new romantic film about the great 19th century English poet John Keats and his love interest Fanny Brawne, Harvard’s Houghton Library has launched a new exhibit. The display, titled “John Keats and Fanny...

Author: By Emily S. Shire, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: John Keats Heats Up Houghton | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

...afternoon and tell us that it was time to chop down the Christmas tree. But the Walsh men are not outdoorsmen; firmly suburban, we're at most screened-in-porch men. So by cutting down the yule tree, my dad meant climbing into the attic and bringing down the tinsel-covered bits of plastic and tubing, then assembling them into something resembling Tannenbaum form. Yes, though it shames me to say it now, we were a faux-fir family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: O Christmas Tree | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

...Beijing parade may also be a reflection of the capital's awareness of its responsibilities as this year's Olympic host. "With the games this year," said Ashley Hong, a college student watching the festivities in a green tinsel necklace "everyone here is excited to welcome people from all over the world. And we don't have too many parades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: St. Patrick in the Middle Kingdom | 3/16/2008 | See Source »

...access by restricting his costume designers to shopping at Passaic stores, telling his actors not to re-watch the movies they were Sweding in the film, and casting about 300 Passaic residents. In the movie, Jerry and Mike replicate the proton beams in Ghostbusters by using fishing rods and tinsel, and imitate a blood splatter with a pizza pie.As a result of this sort of organic, spontaneous creativity, Gondry says that critics lump him in with the “quirkies” who make eclectic films and whom they criticize because, in Gondry’s words...

Author: By Elsa S. Kim, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gondry Talks MIT, DIY, and the Art of 'Sweding' | 2/22/2008 | See Source »

...fools their silks, and knaves their wine - A man's a man for a' that. For a' that, an a' that. Their tinsel show, an a' that, The honest man, tho e'er sae poor, Is king o men for a' that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bacchanal of Burns Night | 1/25/2008 | See Source »

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