Word: cools
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...audience needed a rooting interest, and because Clint was so damn cool, he established the new mode: hero by default. The good guy was the one with the fastest gun, the meanest scowl and top billing. And that perpetual three-day beard that Toshiro Mifune had worn in the same role in Yojimbo; in Hollywood Westerns, the hero's visage was typically hairless, while villains sported a dastardly mustache. Eastwood's scruff became a fashion statement that lives today on the carefully unshaven faces of pop stars and young actors. And his surliness, transposed to the Dirty Harry Callahan character...
...change. Word is getting out that there is something wild and delicious stirring in this frostbitten soil, waiting to be discovered. Chefs who have long looked to France, Italy and Spain for inspiration and ingredients are now literally combing their backyards for the raw materials to create a cool new Nordic cuisine. Instead of the borrowed prestige of imported foie gras and truffles, the new taste of the North is foraged chickweed, Arctic brambles and livestock breeds that date back to the Vikings...
Something to do in Philly if you’re not chilling out, maxing, relaxing all cool, shooting some b-ball, or repenting: attend this game between two local rivals. Or read...
Many of them gathered for a performance by Scrambled Eggs, four nerdy-cool guys in tight jeans who strangle their guitars and have onstage seizures as if this were Seattle in the 1990s. "I was locked in a cellar, and it became my shelter," sang front man Charbel Haber on See You in Beirut Whatever Happens, one of the band's original songs, which channels the postpunk era of Sonic Youth and the Cure but seems somehow appropriate in the current Beirut setting: a subterranean nightclub called Basement, which coined its slogan, "It's Safer Underground," during last summer...
...August meeting—postponed since May—with Associate Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd, an independent consultant that the College had hired informed Castine and UC Vice President Matt L. Sundquist ’09 of new concerns, including picture quality and the need to cool equipment rooms. Though she has refused to provide any detail in writing, either for The Crimson or Castine, Kidd, who declined to comment for this editorial, previously told a Crimson reporter that she “consider[s] the conversation about cable TV to be closed” since...