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...from any given person. But the thing about irony is that it has a time limit. Years ago, I started ironically using the phrase “totes” as a form of assent. Now I hurl “totes” everywhere, even at people who ask me if I want whipped cream on my lattes. “I didn’t used to actually say ‘totes,’” I apologize, ruefully. The barista nods. “I didn’t used to call people Dudemeisters...
...this play is ‘How do you know who anyone else is anymore?—yourself included,’” Stone says in between runs of one of the play’s numerous multilingual vignettes. “I think it asks us to consider a world where terrorism, genocide, and abuse and all these things are sort of the norm and then ask ourselves how we can go on living in this world and why we don’t give these things more thought...
...check in and check out. Little did I know that I was listed under “alcohol-related injuries” and so was going to have to stay until the daytime physician reported for duty. When I left the room they had placed me in to ask what time I could expect to be released (I had planned to work on my thesis prospectus), I got no comprehensible answer to my question...
...fight the establishment to earn his due respect. Nowhere is this clearer than on “Triumph,” the strongest of Wale’s non-collaborative efforts on the album and also the first track. He unabashedly claims that he “asked Mr. West for a little bit of help” but was rejected, proof of the fact that new artists “gotta get it ourself.” On “Mirror,” Wale and Bun B ask “mirror mirror on the wall...
Perhaps in anticipation of the distractions of the news cycle, Obama's aides have scheduled only three press conferences during his weeklong trip, one each in Japan, China and South Korea. At each event, only one member of his traveling press corps will be able to ask Obama a question, though such questions tend to have multiple parts. The President has also scheduled one-on-one interviews with some U.S. media outlets...