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...carnival game. Players are tasked with arranging 12 lightweight plastic cups into various formations; a stacking kit comes with a touch-pad timer and cups that have a trio of holes in the bottom to reduce air resistance. At slower speeds, it seems easy enough: build up pyramids and break them down in a predetermined sequence. But as the game has become increasingly popular--some 15,000 schools and recreation centers worldwide have bought group stacking kits in the past three years--the tempo, not to mention the dang-this-makes-adults-feel-old factor, has really picked...
...that a reason to be optimistic? Sure. Is it time to break out the champagne? Hardly...
...celebratory way invites the audience to form a more nuanced understanding of disabled movement. “They’re given the permission to stare,” Alliger says of the audience. And to complete the rapport, the performers stare right back; at one point they break from dancing in order to address the audience directly with quotations from previous audiences’ reactions, including “We’ve been watching you. We think you’re beautiful.” Thus GIMP blurs the line between the watched and the watchers...
...with equal measure—never more so than on their 2003 magnum opus, “Phantom Power,” where upbeat, frenetic melodies and beats were counterbalanced by wistful lyrics. While its sound is characteristically SFA, “Dark Days/Light Years” is a break from this tradition of point-counterpoint; it is the closest SFA have ever come to genuine, unqualified happiness. The songs on this album revel in a joyous silliness that might seem cutesy in the hands of a less experienced band. But Super Furry Animals are grizzled veterans—this...
...writing in The News, called for an overhaul of current strategies, including reaching out to Pakistan's old foe, India. If Pakistan doesn't have to worry about protecting its eastern flank, she argued, it can concentrate on solving its internal problems. "The only option for Pakistan is to break free of the militant grip, focus on building a new relationship with India and realize the only hope for a brighter future lies in building regional harmony rather than waging war." It's a sound proposal for the long term, but with the Taliban already taking advantage of the peace...