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...background; a faint orange glow on the sand and grass in the distance and reflected on the lake below serves as a reminder of the fading sun. A feather is wrapped with a cloth around his head and a miniature wing emerges from the small of his back??yet it seems all too insignificant an apparatus to allow such defiance of gravity, and the picture reminds us of Icarus’ tragic tale. His hand reaches out behind him in a way that seems to recall Michelangelo’s painting on the Sistine Chapel of God giving...
...VH1’s “Behind the Music” demonstrates, with fame, sadly, comes the consequences of fame. There have been a few dates recently who were less than subtle about their fantasies of riding to their own sexual fame on Ms. Krinsky’s back??yes, literally. As a result, Krinsky has begun to proceed a little more cautiously in her own love life. However, she says that there have also been men at the other extreme, who fear that a minor gaffe in an evening with her would transform them from upright...
...concentrator in Quincy House. As FM’s beleaguered proofer, he serves as the Crimson news executive responsible for controlling the magazine’s obsession with Jay-Z-derived slang. He can be reached at dnewman@fas.harvard.edu. As this issue went to print, Shelley finally e-mailed Dave back??to alert him that she had received an unintended e-mail from FM compers seeking reporting advice for an upcoming story. Score...
...some recent prose-poems and older classics, including his self-declared “one-size-fits-all confessional poem,” “Soonest Mended.” In the poem, Ashbery meditates on “starting out” and “coming back?? and how the two are intertwined. But this inevitable cycle is not so much an exercise in futility as it is a constant return to a place of self-searching and inspiration. In “The Painter,” we again see Ashbery?...
...fiercely competitive job market, the age of free-flowing venture capital, amorphous dress codes and foosball tables in the workplace is a shockingly distant memory. The naïve enthusiasm of the dot-com generation is all but dead. And yet, it’s nice to think back??on the one hand, reminiscing about the easy money, and on the other, chuckling knowingly at the mistakes of those touting the infallibility of internet start-up success. The timing is perfect, then, for a production that offers haggard veterans of the recruiting process a look at the fantastic...