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Obviously, there’s a middle ground in this debate that we can all hew to—a commitment to a perspective from which we can delight in artworks both popular and obscure. The world would be poorer without Bruce Conner and James Benning and Hollis Frampton, but it would also be poorer without Mel Brooks and Ridley Scott and Monty Python. Those who snub one camp for the other are depriving themselves of a lot of worthy and compelling work...
...you’re like me—one of these compulsive worriers—you’ve already envisioned your life as a soup kitchen patron. Everywhere you turn the walls are closing in on you as countless pink-pant wearing preppies delight in telling you about their “lucrative summer position” at Goldman or Stanley. But, if their impressive euphemisms for “internship” haven’t yet frightened you, just wait for it: rolling the “I” across their tongue, they drop...
...baccalaureat is but a tradition, a form in like measure uninspiring to speaker and listener. It is without doubt more difficult of performance than an after-dinner speech. The speaker cannot crack jokes with the same freedom: while the audience cannot endure the boredom with the same keen delight as when resting upon a full meal. Moreover the sermon is never so sorry that one willing to, can not individualize it profitably. And what other earthly use is there for the Sunday preceding commencement...
...Taqueria has long been a student favorite for cheap, filling burritos. Now, one of Anna’s own has branched out and opened his own version of the Mexican eatery. Felipe’s Taqueria took over the spot recently vacanted by Real Taco, to the delight of guacamole and rice lovers in the Square. Owner Felipe Herrera moved to Boston from Oaxaca, Mexico 14 years ago but still knows his salsa. This past weekend, Herrera and his business partner, Tom Brush, unveiled their new joint venture. Felipe’s Taqueria has already won the hearts of many...
...You’re right, it is a Red Sox fan thing to delight in the Yankees misfortune. It just goes along with my plan, if I’m ever filthy rich, to buy the Yankees as opposed to the Red Sox. I’d have to hide from crazy New Yorkers who’d want to kill me, but I’d run that team into the ground...