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About to head over to Europe in continued support of their critically-acclaimed new album “Boxer,” The National managed to show just what all the hype’s about. With Berninger’s burly pipes channeling the lonely knell of Nick Cave, the lyrical moroseness was palpable in the dark nightclub...
...swearing is sure to attract the most attention. For him, there seems to be a cathartic, natural, and even intellectually stimulating use for swearing, and his analysis of it is as enlightening as it is jaw-droppingly provocative.The book ends with a chapter called “Escaping the Cave,” which seems at first to be an arrogant, all-encompassing account of human behavior and thought. Pinker writes his psychological and anthropological account of what human beings are like, every paragraph beginning with a phrase such as “human beings think this...
Given China's human-rights deficiencies and its reluctance to be seen to cave in to outside pressure, it will not budge easily. But China's wealthy trading partners must show Beijing that the long-term costs of uncritically backing murderous regimes exceed the benefits of doing so. We must elevate human safety alongside consumer safety, expressing the same outrage over massacred civilians that we do about faulty toys. And governments sending athletes to China's Olympic "coming out" must shine the torch on its support for brutal regimes...
...darkened Fong Auditorium in Boylston Hall, an audience of Harvard students and art connoisseurs from other universities watched a video of naked women pulling long strips of white paper out of their vaginas. The film, titled “Interior Scroll—The Cave,” was part of a presentation by visual and performance artist Carolee Schneemann yesterday afternoon. During her lecture, called “Disruptive Consciousness,” she showed and spoke about her work, from paintings and photographs to sculptures and short videos. The Harvard College Women’s Center invited Schneemann...
Leave it to Dom Prignon, the Champagne house that has been making wine for more than three centuries, to come up with OEnothque, a unique definition of luxury. It's the masterpiece of Dom Prignon's chef de cave, Richard Geoffroy, who has just named two releases that will bear the OEnothque label. Here's how it works: instead of being bottled after seven years, some of the wine is held back so that the yeast can mature further. Every year Geoffroy tastes the Champagne (cuves generally age for 12 to 15 years...