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Relations between Harvard’s booksellers are much more amicable than one might think. Each store inhabits a distinct niche that sets it apart from the others. James & Devon Gray Booksellers at 12 Arrow St. carry books written before 1700, while Lame Duck Books, in the basement just below it, specializes in modern intellectual history. Both bookstores have a pretty pricy stock—Lame Duck has a rare photograph of Fyodor Dostoyevsky selling for $85,000—but it’s worth it to go into either one just to browse. Entering one of these stores...
...look was reassuringly ordinary: a smiling, Waspy face under a helmet of graying hair. But what he did onstage was unsettling. His act was in part that of an entertainer at a kid's birthday party--juggling, fashioning balloon animals, wearing a gag arrow through his head--but the whole thing was set within ironic quotation marks. It was stupid-smart: a clever man playing someone with misplaced self-confidence who didn't realize he was a buffoon. This guerrilla comic in a three-piece suit was daring the crowd to get it. And for a long time, there were...
...Giuliani too close to Kerik to ask hard questions? Giuliani's rivals certainly pointed to Kerik's indictment as a signal that something isn't jake in the storied House of Rudy. "Very sad and disappointing," said Romney. McCain ally Tom Ridge, a straight arrow who turned down a chance to be on the Republican ticket in 1996 because he did not believe he was ready for the job of Vice President, was sharper. "We're not talking about some urban city patronage job," said Ridge. "That's not what a Cabinet Secretary's about...
...only Marcus Stern’s ambitious stage adaptation of “Darko,” currently playing at the American Repertory Theatre’s Zero Arrow Theatre, could re-capture that dread. Sadly, Stern’s interpretation, full of manic energy and bluster, doesn’t arrive at any emotional truths and ends up as forgettable fluff, both confusing and confused...
...likely be a mental ward. Either way, he encounters a room filled with animals, a movie theater showing a screening of an erratic car crash, and a discotheque. To top it all off, the video ends with Whiteman following a flock of flying birds and aiming a bow and arrow toward a road congested by traffic. Social critique? Maybe. Whiteman might be asking some interesting questions, but it’s impossible to find any answers in this convoluted video. —Andres A. Arguello