Word: boringness
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Pointing out that Harvard is better than Yale is like pointing out that it’s really cold in Cambridge in January: it’s perennially true, to the point that it’s trite and, frankly, boring. We’re not above that. We are...
The lineup for last Monday’s concert at the Roxy was more Animal Planet than MTV, as pastoral electronicists Caribou and Welsh psychedelic goof-rockers Super Furry Animals stampeded the stage. The bill was remarkable for its balance; Caribou has ridden a series of melodic electro-acoustic albums...
Instead, we jostled with hordes of eager beavers for some melted ice cream and then sat around an unfurnished Canaday common room with 20 of the nation’s “best and brightest.” Needless to say, they turned out to be the nation?...
BROOKS: Abortion rates are down a third, divorce rates are down, crime rates are down some 70%, school violence is down, suicide rates, drug addiction--all of the social indicators that were going the wrong way in the '70s and '80s turned around in the early '90s or so, and...
It shouldn't surprise that Waugh batted better than he writes. His tour diaries have been bestsellers, but Out of My Comfort Zone reads like a compilation of these - a superdiary in which almost everything is deemed worth a mention. Waugh's probably never heard of Ernest Hemingway's theory...