Word: backgrounders
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After receiving the third magazine cover in a row with a white background, I have to say, How boring. Half the fun of getting the magazine is guessing what will be on the cover and then seeing what TIME has chosen. I understand the red and blue Venn diagram, but it looks terrible on my coffee table. I hope the Person of the Year cover will not be an abstract artist's caricature of somebody on a white background. If I want to see that kind of art, I'll go to a museum...
...well-intentioned but fell short. While the popular music from OutKast is conducive to certain types of dance, the loud hip-hop undermined the rhythm of the dancers. As a result, there was a constant struggle between the precise patterns of the tap shoes and the more erratic background music. Next was the Harvard Ballet Company’s “Parsons Etude,” which was also performed in the recent Mainstage production “American Grace.” Joanna R. Binney ’08, Lauren E. Chin ’08, Madelyn...
...Paul Martin's humiliating defeat at the hands of Conservative leader Stephen Harper. For one thing, it would be impossible for opponents to place Ignatieff anywhere near the sponsorship scandal since he had been living abroad, in the United Kingdom and the U.S., since 1978. As well, Ignatieff's background - son of one of Canada's most renowned diplomats, a Russian aristocratic ancestry and a five-year term as director of Harvard's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy - was impeccable...
...Looming unseen in the background, as always, is the 800-pound gorilla of Lebanon's political system: Hizballah's armed military wing, which has a weapons and capacity far beyond what any other political party or even the Lebanese army could muster. Hizballah has promised that all its actions will be peaceful. "We save our weapons for fighting Israel," according to Bakkir. But any Lebanese politician that tries to get between Hizballah and its guns will likely go the way of the Phoenicans and the Romans...
...train where the two first meet, Bond observes that Vesper’s “beauty is a problem” and that she “overcompensates by wearing slightly masculine clothing.” She counters with a postulation about Bond’s lower-class background, and finishes with the aforementioned remark about the shallow nature of his sexual proclivities. Is this Fleming, or Freudian Analysis...