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...And then, eventually, almost implausibly, a script was greenlit: Damsels in Distress, the tale of a group of precociously starchy girls at a liberal arts college....
...Alvaro Jarrin is an anthropologist at Union College, New York, who has written extensively on Brazil’s plastic surgery phenomenon. Submitting to the knife is normal among the elite, he says....
...Anyway, all that is now just prologue to the arrival of Damsels in Distress, which is set at Seven Oaks College, an elite university....
...Surely it was my legacy and connections, rather than any real promise, which, in 1983, got me past the admissions committee of New York’s prestigious Barnard College....
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