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...awkward attempts at deflowering or even talking to his fifteen-year-old bride. 3. Take a celebratory swig at the couple’s long awaited consummation! 4. Perform a group alcohol-waterfall for Antoinette’s intellectual renaissance: The scene in which she reads Rousseau aloud in a flowering garden of enlightenment. 5. Five shots for her foray into pink hair. We’ve all done it during that pre-teen punk-rock phase—or at least wished we could have pulled it off. 6. A toast to love at first sight! Because anyone would...
...coming to it when nationally touring dancer and poet Claire Porter took the stage on Saturday night—and neither did the audience. For the subsequent hour and half, Porter performed “Namely, Muscles,” an original piece in which she danced while reading aloud over 30 poems about muscles. Porter’s performance was often eccentric, but presented a profound and creative work of mixed media.The work consisted of Porter’s portrayal of Dr. Nickie Nom, a “Forensic Orthopedic Autopsy Muscular Anatomical Surgical Specialist.” Porter...
...last 30 years, as a jumping-off point for a freewheeling discussion of precocious melancholy, the calling to literature, and the political necessity of open communication. “This book is full of slices of life, things that I have experienced,” he said. Pamuk read aloud a cluster of short lyrical essays originally written for the Turkish political humor magazine “Oküz” (“Ox”). “I’m Not Going to School,” a gently sardonic dramatic monologue, detailed a child?...
...start of the semester in which I will make my concentration choice, I remember stopping by the English Department’s open house with my fellow pre-frosh over a year ago, only beginning to know what a concentration was. Amid the flyers and pamphlets, I wondered aloud to a department member why so much British fiction was required, and if that would be changing anytime soon. Her smile suddenly disappeared. “Well, it is English and American Literature…” she replied...
...movie seem as if he was giving a new speech every night. His jolly, intimate style sells every zinger to audiences who would have bought his line anyway. He's also an ad-lib adept. When one clutch of Catholic protesters recites the Our Father and Hail, Mary aloud during a rally, Moore asks them, "You're not gonna do the whole rosary, are ya?" and then the more pertinent, "What did Jesus bomb?" The movie leaves little doubt that if Kerry had been half the campaigner Moore is, he'd be in the White House, not the political outhouse...