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...which the proud coterie of the Class of 2012 have begun to meet. These new victors of the high-school slaughtering grounds, these new members of the educational elect congregate here to share their varying shades of ecstasy at the news of their admission. It is a happy affair: they revel in the stories of their classmates-to-be and swap anecdotes about the euphoria of receiving an email with news they had been waiting, in some cases, a decade to hear. But splashed across these ecstatic electronic conversations are the worrisome seeds of hubris which may someday metastasize into...
...show, written by Hammerstein along with director Joshua Logan, expertly interweaves the subplots and characters: the wheeling-and-dealing seabee Luther Billis, the love affair between Marine Lt. Joe Cable and a native girl; the effort to lure de Becque into joining a mission to spy on the Japanese. Most provocatively, there is the revelation of Nellie?s racism, after she discovers that her French dreamboat has fathered two mixed-race children. Even today, this seems an awfully daring turn for a 1950s musical to take. The famous second-act song, ?You?ve Got to Be Carefully Taught...
There are times when Benedict's love affair with American religious pluralism seems a bit naive, especially when it clashes with his nonnegotiable doctrinal stands. Without Roots had wonderful things to say about Protestantism as the genius of American religiosity and burnished the alliance between Catholic conservatives and American Evangelicals against abortion. But in 2000 and more acidly in 2007 (after he became Pope), the Vatican released documents describing Protestant churches as suffering from ecclesiastical "defects," adding that "it is difficult to see how the title of 'Church' could possibly be attributed to them." Some of Benedict's new allies...
...hard not to laugh at the result. “The Odd Couple” is definitely an album unlike any other. It’s certainly not perfect, and those expecting another “St. Elsewhere” may be disappointed by this mellower affair, but it’s a diverse record that surpasses most other work produced in these two artists’ careers. Gnarls Barkley may no longer be able to take advantage of the advertising gimmicks that accompanied their rise two years ago, but Danger Mouse and Cee-Lo have proven that their music...
...dinner - a cozy affair for 150 guests - was held at the eccentric loft apartment of Pearl Lam, a Hong Kong-born art dealer and local society doyenne. Filled with large art pieces and furnishings that might be charitably described as vibrant, it resembled a gallery or a slightly camp club more than a home. (Last year, Lam freely confessed to the New York Times that her loft was "bonkers.") A gaudy, stainless steel sculpture by Zhang Wang filled one entranceway; a trio of brightly dotted, spoon-shaped chairs by Zhang Qingfang was clustered in a corner...