Word: witnesses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Freshman Urban Program T-shirt captured the wit and energy that characterized my first week at Harvard. In addition, it gave me membership in a group of service-minded individuals and a uniform with which to recognize them. I laundered the shirt following the instructions my mother had given me (cold water for white shirts and underwear), folded it and placed it in an empty drawer in my Mower room...
Asked to give advice to the Class of 1996, alumni responded with wisdom and wry wit...
...rebelling against his teenybopper past as co-leader of Wham! for some time now (his last album, which attempted a more serious tone, was titled Listen Without Prejudice Vol. I), but on this new CD he is not only a rebel without a cause, he also lacks energy and wit. On the song Star People he actually sings "Star People/ counting your money till your soul turns green/ Star people/ counting the cost of your desire to be seen...How much is enough?" This from the man who pouted and pouted and demanded to be let out of his Sony...
...shrouds the aimless bustle of its plot--kidnapping, murder and political maneuvering set against a 1934 jazz milieu--in an opium haze of dramatic anomie. Stephen Frears' The Van, third in the series that includes The Commitments and The Snapper, is a noisy mess, with shouting in lieu of wit and brawls stunt-doubling for character conflict. But this pub/pug violence was mild next to the atrocities in David Cronenberg's Crash, the festival's mandatory annual outrage. This terminally creepy movie, from the J.G. Ballard novel about people who get sexual thrills from car carnage, could have been...
...they were to hold talks, filled with the usual goodwill and cultural misunderstandings, they might actually agree for several precious minutes before someone or other stormed out, to wit and as follows: if gay marriages seem to weaken the institution of marriage as a whole, that's bad. But if they give gays a recognized place in society, that's probably good. You can't very well accuse gays of acting promiscuously in bathhouses if you won't offer them anyplace else...