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...Taxi. More important, Baron Cohen's approach calls to mind those Kaufman routines - though routine is the wrong word for anything he did - in which he deliberately set out to bore and bewilder his audiences, just to see what would happen. In one he went onstage and simply read aloud from The Great Gatsby. While everyone waited for the joke, the punch line, the something, the anything, he just kept reading. (See pictures of the Kazakhstan Borat didn't depict...
...Elizabeth H. Carleton ’59 would become the last woman ever to be crowned “Miss Radcliffe.” That year, the annual beauty contest—judged by Harvard professors who would watch the girls read aloud a provided passage—came under scrutiny as two of the nine Radcliffe dorms refused to enter candidates in the contest in protest, claiming it was “against Radcliffe principles.”The winner was to be featured in a Glamour magazine spread featuring 10 of the best-dressed college women...
...emphasizes the fact that we live under a constant barrage of information; the final explores the ramifications of surveillance. Photographs of people who have walked through the exhibition appear on the white bars, as the system not only plays back the voices of previous visitors, but also reads aloud a list of phone numbers and addresses compiled from a database of their names. As a result, though the third movement is an artistic representation of surveillance, its existence and continuous innovation rely on the presence of the visitors themselves.“Technology allows people to interact with artifacts...
...side of the road: “With birdie in hand, he looked up at the stars. Eternity, eternity, said a Nietzschean murmur within him, how big you are! O starlight that floods the cosmos (his arc grew shorter and shorter)! Heaven and earth, clouds and space! said Bachmann aloud. Not so loud! Halftan called.” These are the moments when Bachmann’s personal experiences of the war and his mental trauma become beautiful and disturbing without dwelling on the historical, social, or political context. While the latter half of the novel lacks the imagination...
...part of an optimistic outlook can be acquired with the right instruction - a theory borne out in a study of college freshmen by Seligman. Pessimistic students who took a 12-week optimism-training course devised by Seligman - which included exercises like writing a letter of gratitude then reading it aloud to someone - were less likely to visit the student health center for illnesses during the next four years than their similarly pessimistic peers who weren't tutored in positive thinking. And a larger study of more than 3,000 middle-school students who are being taught resilience techniques is under...