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...week ago," he tells his Wyoming hosts, after Meryl proves her mettle with firearms, "she was basically Amish.") Grant can't do much with the rest of the movie's banter, long mothballed in the Museum of Old Jokes. One bit comes from the Jack Benny Gagbook, circa 1937. FBI agent to Meryl: "Would you rather live somewhere else than die in New York?" Meryl: - long pause - "I'm thinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Did You Hear How Bad The Morgans Is? | 12/18/2009 | See Source »

...world more successfully engaged with relativity, QM’s better-behaved older brother. While concepts like warped space-time are hardly possible to visualize, its effects are easier to understand. When the theory became famous in 1919, it had a significant effect on the art world (see Kandinsky circa the 1920s). The way the theory forced us to reconsider our everyday concepts of space and time radically altered our renderings of them through...

Author: By Adam L. Palay, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Keats & Quanta: The Cat Is Dead | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

...anaerobic environment aids preservation. Curator Kate Sumnall says the museum receives about 500 objects of historical significance a year from mudlarks. Past discoveries include medieval pottery, 16th century oil pots, pewter badges worn by pilgrims returning from Canterbury Cathedral, decorative mounts from Viking chests and Hindu lamps from circa 1895 - the year the Thames was sanctified as a substitute for the Ganges as a place for the devout to leave offerings during Diwali. In August, Brooker made global headlines by unearthing a 17th century ball and chain - minus the leg it had once encased - belonging to an escaped or drowned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Following in the Footsteps of the Mud God | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

Whereas some proposed closings or cutbacks at Harvard sites ranging from the information center to departments to dining halls, one Bank visitor wanted to extend thriftiness to the most intimate of student hangouts—and no, we don’t mean the plan to go old-school, circa 1636, and reopen the fireplaces to save on the heating bill. Instead, one anonymous contributor boldly suggested, “Make people buy their own toilet paper...

Author: By Rachel T. Lipson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cashing in on the Idea Bank: Are We Bankrupt? | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

...family members,” Amram says. “We got it last year, and we get it this year. We both really care a lot about what happens, and we haven’t had our big falling out yet. It’s going to happen circa 2024.”“We’re going to be at the opening of ‘Product Placement: The Musical,’ and I’ll storm on stage and throw something, and that something will be Mamram,” Petri says.If...

Author: By Ali R. Leskowitz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pudding Caught Red-Handed with Plans for New Show | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

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