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...Upon first reading the play, Kohanski says she recognized herself, and predicts that her precise reaction typifies and reveals the depth of the show’s appeal to undergraduates. “I read it,” she recalled. “And I was like, ‘oh dude, that...
...added that the alleged assailant had left by the time police arrived but soon returned to the scene. Upon his return, the responding officers questioned and identified the suspect but did not arrest...
...would be unfair to speak in such terms without at last turning my critical lens upon myself. Ambrose Bierce once defined a critic as “a person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him”. In my tenure as a reviewer, I have been pleased many times, infuriated only once, and have been consistently impressed by the talent and efforts of the Harvard theater community. I hope my work has done them justice, and that my standards have been fair. I would also like to reiterate my gratitude to my readers...
Protecting the Picked Upon...
...recall if I saw any films before Star Wars, and afterward I evaluated every film against it. I liked seeing 20th Century Fox movies just so I could catch the studio's martial drumbeat theme, which precedes the words "A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away ..." Upon hearing the Fox drums, I always hoped the projectionist would roll Star Wars and not, say, Chariots of Fire, which my parents cruelly sold to me and my brother as "a movie about racing." My first non-kid's movie was Corvette Summer, the 1978 embarrassment I wanted...