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...test. The band’s guitarist had played the instrument for only two months before the first show. They had “no real equipment,” Klein recalls, so band members balanced a broken microphone on top of a bucket—using duct tape to keep the contraption in place. By all accounts, the performance was well-received, and within months, Plan B’s members would be the youngest performers at the Ladyfest East expo in Brooklyn, N.Y., a festival dedicated to supporting women artists. Plan B still screams to much acclaim...
...hype, you’d think the blog was a cornucopia of juicy gossip about the future Sam McSenators who populate Harvard Law School. Reality disappoints. Scrolling through posts, the most viewed posts includes a YouTube video of an unidentified Harvard Law student with a 40 oz. duct-taped to her wrists that she unsuccessfully tries to remove for a good three minutes. The blog also includes derogatory comments on the gender, sexuality, and appearance of various law students, including some from Harvard. But Law School student Adam R. Sorkin thinks these harsh remarks represent the feelings of only...
...watch a certain television program, evilly titled “Aqua Teen Hunger Force.” The perpetrators of this plot, who—much like Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri—have facial hair, calculatedly placed light boxes with sinister circuits of wires, batteries, duct tape, and a lighted cartoon character in strategic locations throughout the city. The danger posed by these devices is almost too terrible to contemplate: In the alternate universe where al-Qaeda terrorists hide bombs in Lite-Brite toys, these devices could have been lethal weapons of mass destruction. The evildoing...
Does anyone really fear dying in a nuclear blast? In my atomic nightmare, my family survives. A flash of light across the East River in Manhattan; a tremor and roar; a column of flame. Then the questions. Do we pack up the kids and flee? Duct tape the windows and hope for help? How much food is in the pantry? How strong are the locks on the doors...
...it’d have to be a loose-fitting dress, because there’s no hiding the bulge. It’d just be unbelievable,” Kollmer said. “I don’t think the Pudding has the budget for the duct tape you’d need to put me in the woman pants.” -Staff writer Nicholas K. Tabor can be reached at ntabor@fas.harvard.edu...