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Lyons is an architect's textbook, where the oldest Roman theater in France (circa 1st century B.C.) is only a fossil's throw from a vast urban-renewal project that will include a science museum by Austrian architects Coop Himmelblau - a dissonantly angular 21st century "crystal cloud" intended to "float" 12 m above the ground...
...Kennedy’s book is to illuminate African-American history through the prism of the word “nigger” and to chart the word’s strange and troubling history. As Oliver Wendell Holmes said, a word “is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged,” but “the skin of a living thought [that] may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.” Kennedy’s book aims to study these circumstances by following...
Gomes told police that his drug habit had begun his first year at Harvard with ecstasy and had grown to include crystal methamphetamine, court papers...
Kuusisto is no stranger to stepping up in place of an injured teammate. As a freshman during the 1999 national championship season, Kuusisto started 11 games in place of Crystal Springer ’00 and won them all, including a 7-6 overtime win over Northeastern in the Beanpot semifinals, and a 6-5 overtime win over New Hampshire in the national championship game...
...cream cone. Having his brain squeezed into such a tiny space grants Zippy a kind of American culture satori - he exists entirely in the moment - instantly obsessed with whatever trend or object passes in front of him. (He will even turn phrases such as "Diflucan Fluconazole," or "Quilted Crystal Jelly Jars," into mantras.) As a result many of the strips demand a similar kind of mysticism from the reader. You must accept that being a joke does not require being a joke. No other strip challenges the reader in such a smart...