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...from Leona Helmsley syndrome--an inflated sense of superiority. Judith Giuliani is a classic example. If Rudy is the Republican nominee, she will be a deficit to him. Elizabeth Edwards and Michelle Obama mean well for their husbands but probably would not be so outspoken if it were a closer race. Everyone knows Bill Clinton--and either loves or hates him--so he doesn't have to say much...
...spreads them across the album, preventing any one rhythm from ever really taking over. “Chores” tumbles over itself so quickly as to leave you breathless by the end, “#1” gives in entirely to electronic elements, and album-closer “Derek” revisits the band’s early obsession with acoustic folk. At the core of all this schizophrenic songwriting, however, is Animal Collective’s strongest diptych yet—two songs, thirteen minutes all together, and the closest thing to a mission statement...
...structures, as dismal and dingy on the inside as their exteriors.But the oldest parts of the hospital were designed to replicate a royal palace that had once stood on the same grounds. Traditional architecture disguised dusty hallways that were crowded with patients and modern medical equipment, in an even closer juxtaposition of Beijing’s “high” and “low” aesthetics.I found beauty from one of Beijing’s many sky bridges—concrete footpaths over the city’s highways.I’ve stood there often...
Harvard pledged to open an educational center in Allston by this spring that will provide free math and science tutoring to area residents. The center is one of the community benefits being offered as the University comes closer to breaking ground on its new campus across the river. The educational center, planned for 175 North Harvard St., will provide at least 100 hours per month of tutoring and lectures for any interested students and adults in Allston. The announcement at a meeting of the Harvard Allston Task Force last night came one week before the city is expected to approve...
...line, with effects reminiscent of “Highway 61 Revisited” rising in and out of its shadows. “Resurrection Fern” is gorgeous, glimmering like a moonlit reflection of older song “The Trapeze Swinger,” and the album closer, “Flightless Bird, American Mouth,” is the closest Beam comes to his earliest work. Even some of the less spare pieces manage to work. “Boy With a Coin,” the album’s first single, lopes along to hand...