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...whim, Romolo Del Deo '82 sent a letter to his House master...
...whim, Romolo Del Deo '82 sent a letter to his House master in 1979, looking for some makeshift studio space in Adams House so he could escape the cramped room in the Carpenter Center that he shared with another student artist...
...President Woodrow Wilson's steadfast and not entirely popular efforts to keep the U.S. out of the conflict between the Allied and Central Powers. There is nothing new here, but there is value in being reintroduced to an American leader whose every move was not dictated by public whim. This installment, in addition to offering moving reflections from still-living World War I veterans, also features an appearance by Wilson's grandson, the Rev. Francis Sayre. He talks about how his widowed grandfather fell for Edith Galt, a woman he met golfing and to whom he proposed after knowing...
...first-time director, Chen says, "at times I felt like the captain of the Titanic." Chen may also have felt like Xiu Xiu: both abandoned by the government hierarchy and subject to its whim. "Every day we worried that our equipment would be confiscated and that the film negative would never get out of China. But fortunately nobody came to look for us." Unlike Xiu Xiu, of course, Chen chose these conditions on her own terms: she sent herself down. "Hardship is the romantic part of filmmaking," she says. "You endure for a few months, then you go home...
...tender young age of 18, Lang has traversed the world with the likes of the Rolling Stones and B.B. King. Not bad for a kid who just picked up the guitar on a whim when he was 13. Cashing in on connections that would make even the Harvard Alumni Association green with envy, Lang cut his first solo record after meeting ex-Prince producer, David Z. The album's debut single and title track, "Lie to Me," saw some heavy rotation on MTV and extended play on VH1. On the video, he was able to capitalize on his all-American...