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...insularity that most upperclassmen have comfortably settled into is as much a factor of major as it is a factor of blocking groups and residence. The real solidarity of attitudes, the taking-for-granted, the place where questions cease to be asked cannot be entirely divorced from the academic context...
...Darcy). Admittedly, those adventures include perhaps the weak point of the novel, when Bridget is framed for smuggling drugs in Thailand, which seems to be the excitement-and-terror locale du jour (see Brokedown Palace or The Beach). Out of urban London, Bridget's neuroticism seems hopelessly out of context: for all her moaning in her diary, a lot of the humor of the novel derives from the fact that her life is rather good, actually. And her performance of "Like a Virgin" in a Thai prison is the stuff of bad comedies...
...museum, though, I begin to question myself and the Mashantucket Pequots. The museum seems to make even less sense in the context of its surroundings than the nearby casino and hotel complex. Designed by New York's Paul Jacob Parkers, who reveals himself here to be the poor man's Frank Gehry, the building makes little attempt externally to interact with its environment, strange given the emphasis one would expect to be placed on such a dialogue here on the rez. Things get both better and worse on the museum's inside. A spiral ramp draws the visitor artfully from...
...actions within the realm of sports ought to stay subject only to the laws of sports. Marty McSorley did not go up to Brashear in a bar and smack him over the head with an empty Bud Light bottle--he did it in the context of a violent game. More importantly, he did it in a game where both of these individuals were known as brawlers. Canada wanting to prosecute its national pastime for doing what made the sport famous in the first place is even dumber than the Canadian health care system...
...death penalty for delivering fatal blows to opponent Duk Koo Kim in their Nov. 13, 1982 title bout? No. These events are part of what comes along with the sport. People may cheat or even flagrantly violate the rules of their sport, but they are doing so within its context. Athletic contests like football, hockey, boxing and others are ones of controlled aggression. It is only natural for this aggression to occasionally become uncontrolled...