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...course nobody, not even Air, plays with this technological contrast without inviting comparison to Radiohead. On a gorgeously schizophrenic rendition of “People in the City,” Dunckel and Godin got in touch with their inner paranoid android, swinging wildly between rock stomp and tropical synth. But I suspect that their android is just suffering from a mild case of ennui, because Air is having way too much sex to endorse Radiohead’s apocalyptic prolepsis...
...sophisticate living the life of his dreams, with no remorse. It is because he is so capable of love—of women, art and food, life’s finer pleasures—that we can’t dismiss him, something Cavani plays up. It is this contrast that made Hannibal Lecter so scary in The Silence of the Lambs and so empty in Hannibal: his pleasure and thus the audience’s pleasure in his pleasure was lost in the transition from surprising lust to tedious psychosis...
...greeted with a 30-foot banner advertising their match. Because the Harvard team was formally invited by the Chinese government, they were treated as quasi-celebrities. Peking University’s president gave an opening speech that reflected the magnitude of the event. This reverence was a stark contrast to the reception back home; despite being Harvard’s oldest club, the chess team doesn’t get preferential treatment. The Undergraduate Council only offered $250 to these chess masters for trip funding. Despite Harvard’s lack of support, Benjamin was especially excited by the opportunity...
...credit enrichment activities as well as electives and chances to do field research. The Kennedy School of Government often uses January as an extension of fall term—assigning research papers or take-home exams that are due that month. The Medical School and Law School, in contrast, offer full-fledged classes for credit. From these fuzzy and disparate precedents, it’s hard to imagine what the College’s “J-term” might look like...
Discussion participants were greeted last night outside Lamont by a handful of protestors who sought to draw a contrast between the fund-manager salaries and ongoing layoffs at the Harvard libraries...