Word: warmness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...film is also the fullest expression of Allen's love affair with New York City. "I live on the Upper East Side of Manhattan," he says, "and I wanted to make a movie to share with other people the very warm and positive feelings I have for my neighborhood. I look around and I see rich kids going to these private schools and their chauffeurs take them, and I see husbands and wives come down at night, and he's got a tux on and she's got a gown, and they go out--it's a wonderful, romantic neighborhood...
...students journey home to warm beds and turkey, many have to make it from the Square to Logan Airport before heading to their final destination...
Unfortunately, the administration refuses to recognize this reality. By insisting on an inflexible, boarding-school-esque meal plan, and by refusing to provide warm and quiet late-night study spaces, Harvard gives night people short shrift...
...Lamont, saying, "Ha ha ha! You' didn't get your work done, did you? Wel,l too bad! It's time to go! You're a night person. I hate night people. You should be asleep by now! Asleep! Now I'm going to lock you out of a warm, quiet place to study, so you can go back to your underheated cubicle and struggle with your noisy roommates who will do everything in their power to keep you from reading. Be gone...
...lights, heat and radio on, maintaining ideal study conditions even in the dead of night. In our dorm rooms, even if no one's talking, trying to read with pillows temptingly few inches away is not easy. Worse still, Harvard's heating authorities, who presumably retire to their own warm bedrooms each evening, have insanely decreed that room temperatures migrate down to 64 degrees overnight. It's not easy to study under three blankets...