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...business (as he did everything else) and so vastly exaggerated his census of production genius. Another writer, William Goldman, author and fixer of many a screenplay, came closer to the true figure, which is zip. NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING, he wrote, putting his dictum in capital letters in the vain hope that people would pay serious attention...
While Jordan's short-lived baseball career may have accounted for 83.9 percent of attendence around the Southern League last year, his vain-glorious attempts represented a threat to the integrity of the game...
...They can't look decisive or bold. They remind us of high school math class. Ahh, but here's the one, obvious beauty of a pencil: graphite disappears with a little help from that wonder of physics, friction. Pencils at Harvard are reserved for either those who aren't vain enough to care about permanence or for taking exams, where we would rather not have our confused hieroglyphics remembered. Pencil use has its hierarchy, though: note the dichotomy between integral-calculators, who use mechanical pencils, and the doodler who doesn't notice how terminally dull his or her Dixon Ticonderoga...
...Falsettos revolves around Marvin (Brad Rouse), a middle aged gay man who is unwilling to sacrifice his dream of a close-knit family, no matter what the wishes of that 'family' might be. He brings together his frantic ex-wife Trina (Leslie Yahia), antisocial son Jason (Chris Terrio), and vain lover Whizzer (Michael Stone) all under one roof. Marvin's hapless efforts to fit all the pieces of his life together provide the comic energy of the first half. Flung into this house of neurotics is also Martin's less-than-stable psychiatrist, Mendel (Reese Snow), who is immediately love...
...fact, if Harvard could only teach her young one thing, it should be that they have a critical role to play in society. The hours we spend grappling with Kant and agonizing over physics should not be in vain. Our education here must be placed in a context of developing ourselves to become better citizens who can meaningfully impact a community. Otherwise our four years here are reduced to nothing more than an expensive intellectual vacation...