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...quite jive with Pynchon’s classic (one might say, inherent) psychedelia. The novel really does feel shaggy and baggy, because the normally lean detective genre has had to loosen up to accommodate Pynchon’s wild narrative loops and quixotic scenic fancies. When the dentist??s secretary pauses a plot-advancing conversation to ask Doc’s friend—“Excuse me, . . . is that a slice of pizza on your hat?” —the irksomeness of the interruption overshadows the humor of his response...

Author: By Jillian J. Goodman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pynchon's Noir "Inherently" Minor | 9/18/2009 | See Source »

...Perhaps the most interesting element of the entire affair, though, was hearing the Commander-in-Chief weigh in. Barack Obama usually treats discussions of race like trips to the dentist??occasional, unpleasant necessities to be avoided whenever possible. But on Wednesday night, in a primetime news conference, the President was strikingly candid...

Author: By Daniel E. Herz-roiphe | Title: The Professor, the Policeman, and the President | 7/24/2009 | See Source »

...Indonesia, where lava is cheap, plentiful, and harvested by thousands of natives.” A spread features a picture of a lion composed of many smaller pictures of human breasts, described by the Lampoon Web site as “Boobs you can look at in the dentist??s office.” “Parody is a form of flattery,” National Geographic magazine editor Chris Johns said in a statement. “We may not agree with everything in it, but we take it as good...

Author: By Maxwell L. Child, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lampoon Goes ‘National’ | 4/2/2008 | See Source »

...level for others. And though Corey, Czakó, and Kürti do a good job for the most part, the remainder of the book suffers somewhat from the sense that some details were left unsaid while others were over-embellished.Nonetheless, the curious reader who, in preparation for a dentist??s appointment, flips to the page on lidocaine, will find an intellectually pleasing mixture of history, drug discovery, chemistry, and neurology, which, most importantly, is easy to read. It is a testament to the authors’ expertise and economical writing style that all of this is packed comfortably...

Author: By Jonathan B. Steinman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Molecules’ Binds Science and Life | 10/5/2007 | See Source »

...desire to avoid her husband. Their return is prompted by the mother’s desire for her eldest daughter to follow in her footsteps and become the next free radical feminist thinker. However, her plans become complicated when a dentist falls in love with the daughter and the dentist??s landlord happens to be the childrens’ father. “The exposure to the most influential British playwright of the 20th century is an opportunity you can’t miss. Shaw in performance is a really special treat and we’ve made...

Author: By Jessica X.Y. Rothenberg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ex's Shaw is More than Mere Fluff | 11/8/2006 | See Source »

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