Word: clevernesses
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...bride at a climactic moment on their wedding night when he has a sudden idea. Kehlmann has an overabundant imagination, but he's also a thorough researcher, which makes this an engrossing, enjoyable mix of fact and fiction. Sometimes hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking, Measuring the World manages to be both clever and entertaining, which is a science unto itself. - By Stephanie Kirchner 10. Georg Gerster, The Past from Above...
BECAUSE THE MEMBERS OF THIS band look like students in a math Ph.D. program, you expect their songs to sound cleverly tortured and insufferably internal. They are clever--note the use of unconjoined in their lyrics--but their rock experimentation owes more to David Bowie (who cameos on Province) than to John Cage. Tunde Adebimpe and Kyp Malone's harmonies radiate awkward warmth, while the rhythms pause just long enough to reveal surprising melodies...
...your brother’s old gym membership card was going to pass muster.3. A flask. Now, just so we’re clear, the rules are that outside alcohol isn’t allowed at the tailgate or in the stadium. That said, if you’re clever, the viewing of sub-par college football (or sub-par outdoor grinding) is greatly improved with a little liquid enhancement. If your body revolts at the thought of unadulterated vodka or gin, try flavored liquor. The 99 schnapps line (try 99 Oranges) is ideal for such purposes.4. Binoculars. Useful...
...Their first song, the Goldman-written “Republic of Virtue,” was a “complaint about...the mediocrity and parochial character of the punk scene,” Goldman says, laughing at himself. “Since I felt that I was very clever, it was all expressed in the idiom of the French Revolution”. Yakub broke up after an eighteen-month stint when band members wanted to pursue other interests—in Goldman’s case, political theory. “I have long since moved...
...PHOTOGRAPHER'S LIFE ANNIE LEIBOVITZ Clever thoughthey may be, Leibovitz's celebrity portraits can sometimes remind you of an armored car: big, heavyset and built for serious business. In this book of pictures taken from 1990 to 2005, the celebrity pics, with their industrial-strength charm, are back--the naked and pregnant Demi Moore, Brad Pitt languishing on an orange bedspread--but there are informal family shots as well, like one of her brother and father, below, and many pictures of her longtime beloved, the writer Susan Sontag, even as the ailing Sontag ventures toward death. Leibovitz's unflinching...