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...Harvard lights—who are right on the cusp of a No. 1 ranking—this year, so far, so good...
...Caravaggio. Entering the Old Master's new suite of seven photographs, which Henson has installed in a darkened room, is like entering night - or, rather, the twilight zone. His portraits of half-clad teens offset by landscapes of twisting roads and glinting industry capture life on the cusp - between light and dark, bush and city, innocence and experience. For Henson, something dies each time he releases the camera's shutter. "It's relentlessly fascinating and powerful to me for that reason," he told Time last year. "Every photograph is a memento mori...
...Lenny Bruce called the pre-Hefner girlie magazines ?stroke books? - instruments of onanism, marital aids for those far short of marriageable age and barely on the cusp of puberty. The typical girlie mag was tatty, printed on coarse paper, with only a few pages of runny color; they were the Ace paperbacks of voyeurism. Their meager, TV Guide-size dimensions meant that any model on display in their cramped surroundings had no acuter definition than a woman undressing across the courtyard, behind a screen, in the dark. I suppose that the dingy quality of the girlie pix, like the furtive...
...hate America," so we're not exactly joining hands and singing Kumbayah here. But Angels is nonetheless a deeply American play (and movie and TV show) because it captures how Americans--be it in the 1600s, in the 1980s or today--perpetually believe themselves to be on the cusp of great change, even apocalypse. This is true now for obvious reasons. As Kushner notes, "Today, you can say we're approaching the end of things without sounding like a nut ... Those towers collapsing--it looked like something from a tarot deck." But even before 9/11, millennialism was in the American...
...receives “just under 10,000” applications a year and takes roughly 1 out of 10 students, according to Dewey. While only 100-200 of those applications are submitted by students on the cusp of graduating from college, the one-tenth acceptance rate applies equally well to that group, Dewey adds...