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...absence of voter interest, a disturbing number of candidates have resorted to vicious, often petty, character assaults to get the public's attention. While such attacks are nothing new, this year's campaigns are the dirtiest in recent memory. "The issue space in people's heads is getting smaller," says Field. "The negative ads are the ones that stick." The forum for most of the mudslinging is television. In big statewide races, staging rallies and pressing the flesh in traditional "retail campaigns" are becoming dying arts; saturating the airwaves with pungent, simplistic 30-sec. "hit ads" is considered more efficient...
HARVARD THEATERGOERS have seen their fair share of bizarre dramatic mutations--these days, no one dares balk at Shakespeare staged as a Sid Vicious rock opera or Brecht in a dormitory bathtub. Unfortunately, original student-written plays never seem to find equal stage time...
Understandably, Shepard's Follies lacks the tightness and structural discipline of well-established works, Sid Vicious and bathtubs notwithstanding. But while much virtue lies in Provost's and Litt's creative endeavors, and while both audience and actors seemed to enjoy the new material, Shepard's Follies falls short in its lack of professional polish...
Branca, a native of San Diego, says that tempting death has helped him cope with new experiences ranging from life in Europe to life in the pool with "vicious" collegiate water polo players...
Students who pay a large tuition to attend Harvard College may be expected to find an environment free from the contamination of faculty rancor and vicious intra-university politics. A good university should be temporary Arcadia and respite before one meets the ravening hypocrisy of American society at large...