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INTO Balm's society of antisocials, whose only law is "me first" stumble two comparatively well-off and friendly misfits. Joe (C.J. Nolan) is a middle-class hustler looking for a piece of the drug-pushing action, and Darlene (Jacqueline Grad) is a woman unaccustomed to the "big city" (she's from Chicago) who is looking for an office job. It is no surprise that they are attracted to each other, and their relationship, though there is not enough compassion or love in it to call it a romance, offers the only hope in the play that anyone will overcome...
...says that the CCA has never made the effort to get to know less well-off Cambridge citizens as the independents have. He notes that he has never attended a wake from which Mayor Sullivan was absent. His candidacy is an effort to attract blue collar voters with liberal views away from the conservative independents who have survived on their support...
...whole thing just sets your head spinning. Clean-cut young Harvard lads decked out as well-endowed women, putting on a musical--an art form that is perhaps the most banal and vapid vehicle in the American cultural desert--for their well-dressed, well-mannered and well-off patrons and friends...
...time they are juniors and seniors, however, many low-income students say they have realized their initial impressions were inaccurate or at least exaggerated. Lowe, for instance, admits he once had the "pre-conceived notion that [Harvard] was a very white, very East Coast, very well-off school" but now he knows this isn't nearly as pervasive as he imagined...
...elitist" and "exclusive." Just as important, the main event of the celebration--the event that is supposed to give all students a chance to participate--is prohibitively expensive. Students with wealthy families will be able to afford the tickets and social accessories needed to attend the ball, while less well-off students will either have to decline their invitations or scrimp and save to accept them...