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Food is fad--it's gone the second we swallow it--and one day Batali's restaurants will seem musty and trite. But at least for now, Batali--partly because he is a man of catholic, unquenchable appetites--seems to know exactly what our overfed country is hungry for. (It's also not terribly surprising that a country where nearly two-thirds of adults are overweight venerates a large guy as a cooking icon.) Buford notes that Batali once flirted with an apposite motto: "Wretched excess is just barely enough...
...person who is condemning it,” she says. Waterman says that she would consider herself a pacifist. At the same time, she says she believes that war can be necessary as “the price of freedom.” It’s a trite phrase, she says, but she thinks there is truth in it.IN FULL REGALIA Waterman’s father flies up from Virginia to accompany her to Friday’s military ball. Waterman and her father have always been very close, but her decision to join ROTC surprised him. It seemed...
...cope with her husband’s decision to sell his organs in order to support his family, while she carries on an affair with his brother. However, “Gone Too Soon” by Sameera Haque ‘06 was nothing more than a trite rendition of the story in which a child discovers that her mother has cancer. While the story’s basic foundation is potent enough to have made a good performance through a strong delivery, the monologue was unoriginal and a little bland. It should have brought tears to the eyes...
...much out of the day as possible.”DOING IT FOR THEMSELVESTo respond to the struggles of training, pressure, and breaking boundaries in a sport dominated by men, the Olympic women of the Harvard hockey team draw strength from a variety of sources. After apologizing for being trite, Cahow attributes her own determination and inspiration to her mom, a doctor who was one of just eight women in her Harvard Medical School class. “I think she’s a pretty incredible woman,” says Cahow. “She really...
...Poor catchphrase attribution is one of several fumbles made by directors Cory Edwards, Todd Edwards, and Tony Leech in their efforts to create an animated film that caters to all demographics. They also sacrifice the charm of traditional children’s movies for aggressive characters, trite cartoon gags, and curious casting decisions; Xzibit, for example, sheds a little more of his dignity by providing the voice of an irritable grizzly bear/police chief. But “Hoodwinked” isn’t a laugh-free affair: when the characters aren’t talking, the writers manage...