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...Saturday in January, a well-dressed man strolling Manhattan's recently gentrified Lower East Side unexpectedly found his way blocked by 35 people singing on the sidewalk. The lyrics were somber--"Then shall the dust return ... to God who gave it"--but the delivery was joyful. Asked what he thought was going on, he ventured, "I dunno. A funeral...
...years ago, Perper points out, by a bloke named Ovid. As dating books go, The Art of Love leaves more recent publications like The Layguide: How to Seduce Women More Beautiful Than You Ever Dreamed Possible No Matter What You Look Like or How Much You Make in its dust. And yes, that's a real book...
...Statue of Liberty (a nod to two postapocalyptic classics at once, Planet of the Apes and Escape from New York) and a giant monster (the number of horns wasn't available at press time) shouldering its way between skyscrapers. But the most indelible images are of clouds of pale dust billowing down city streets and shredded copy paper sifting down out of the sky in eerie silence, images that instantly evoke the 9/11 attacks. "With Cloverfield, we were trying to create a film that would be entertaining and, as a by-product of the subject matter, perhaps be a catharsis...
...with the period's cataclysmic close. In lots of people's minds, the mystery of what killed the dinosaurs and other species - paving the way for the rise of mammals - was solved a couple of decades ago: a giant asteroid or comet slamming into the Earth, resulting in a dust cloud that shrouded the sun, cooled the planet dramatically and killed off plants and animals wholesale. It's a compelling story, but plenty of scientists never completely bought it. The dinos died pretty quickly, they admit, but not quite abruptly enough to be explained this way. So alternate theories...
...students to become successful and worldly graduates, it should actually encourage its students to take a language during their senior year. As commencement looms, students better understand the path that awaits them, and they are more likely to remember a language taken in their final year than one gathering dust from three years before...