Word: turned
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...hope this will serve as a turn for PBHA to be more activist-oriented and not to have the activist and service communities so completely disjointed as they are now," Morgan said...
Oliver Stone addressed a jam-packed audience at the Harvard Film Archive last Thursday evening as part of a grueling publicity tour for both his new movie U-Turn and his newly released first novel, A Child's Night Dream. Reflecting all of the off-putting frankness and none of the feistiness of his carefully sculpted press persona, Stone treated the audience to an uneven but occasionally fascinating hour and a half...
...chance. Perhaps Stone was affecting humbleness to make the planned success of U-Turn more headline-friendly ("Underdog Director Strikes Back!"). Maybe he thinks that presenting conflicting versions of himself to different audiences will further his mystique. Or maybe he was just really, really tired...
...only moment in the book in which Gould addresses the cultural aspects of the millennial debate. Listing a few examples of pop culture favoritism for January 1, 2000 (which, yes, do include Prince's album 1999), Gould remarks on the diminishing influence of "high culture" since the last turn of the century. While 100 years ago every Ivy League president favored 1900-1901, Gould says, the sector of society who will be celebrating the big one on Jan. 1, 2001 is on the fringe. As Gould puts it, "Who can doubt that 2000 will win this time?" Harvard sophomores knew...