The Way We Were, Sydney Pollack’s melodrama starring Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford, is classic 1970s Hollywood: a somewhat geeky schlock-fest involving romantic montages of the couple cooking dinner, frolicking on the beach, lying by a roaring fire, etc. etc. I love how the sex scenes always cutaway to large bodies of water. Robert Redford’s [...]

There are certain things about college that I find terrifyingly gauche. Tonight I was lying awake in my cozy extra-long twin bed, while a gaggle of inebriated underclassmen hosted some sort of end-of-year alcoholic extravaganza in the suite above me. I could bear the incessant throbbing of their dreadful music, but then, the terrifying occurred: [...]