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...middle-aged man with a penchant for his own “funny cowboy dance.” But the individual sketches are very much units unto themselves, preventing the book from having the virtuosic scope and insight of a “Cat’s Cradle?? (not that it’s trying to be “Cat’s Cradle,” anyway). Handey’s dark and bizarre humor works. In his sketch “Fuzzy Memories,” a collection of individual childhood recollections, he writes...
...great dystopic and apocalyptic tales, such as Orwell’s “1984”, Huxley’s “Brave New World”, Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451”, and Vonnegut’s “Cats Cradle??, are all written as science fiction. Our power to utterly destroy ourselves or our world through nuclear war or other man-made mishaps has only been comprehended and communicated through science fiction. Even the current threat posed by climate change is along the lines of science fiction. It?...
...world of Sam Beam, the bearded Floridian who goes by the moniker Iron & Wine: Where once was a hushed grandeur, a well-oiled beast has let out a hollow howl. Beam’s previous solo LPs (2002’s “The Creek Drank the Cradle?? and 2004’s “Our Endless Numbered Days”) glowed with disarming, whispered proximity. While these full-lengths and a few interspersed EPs have found his homespun aesthetic—all tape hum and endearing errors—buried beneath ever-thickening layers...
...Cambridge Arts Council, and it profiles art made on an almost preposterously small scale by 11 artists from the New York and Cambridge areas.Small boats made from coffee spoons and matchsticks, unfinished model cars, vintage erector sets, little glass boxes full of tiny girls playing cat’s cradle??the exhibit takes intimate and treasured objects, often the outgrowth of childhood obsessions, and places them in the public eye. The gallery literally provides magnifying glasses for the viewers, allowing visitors to examine the most precise details of the artists’ miniatures...
...Abbot’s wife, Katie Lauren, became pregnant, and he wrote to tell her not to buy a cradle??the Abbot baby would be the first from the Class of 1859, and it was customary for the class to donate...