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...Cube Lethal Injection (Priority). Ice Cube's raps about police brutality and white immorality enter the ear and expand in the brain like a Black Talon bullet; his lyrics are sometimes inexcusable, but his logic is often inescapable. Ignore his high-caliber insights at your peril...
...Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx. Winner of this year's National Book Award, Proulx's rambunctious second novel zeroes in on a coastal Newfoundland community coming apart economically and socially when the fishing and seal hunting industries fail. The author has a sharp ear for regional speech and a barbed and quirky style that can be both startling and humorous...
...James Dean and his motorcycle will always rev my engine. I can’t help being attracted to Heathcliffs, Danny Zukos, and Johnny Castles, and I won’t stop gravitating toward the slacker in class who appreciates my study habits and takes advantage of my willing ear. Despite this penchant for punishment, my relationships are far from doomed. Wrong-doing rebels may still breed danger on the main stage, but we good women can pull the curtain down on our failing Florence Nightingale act. No more selfless nurse for me. No more Sandra Dee meets Mother Mary...
Zander stood teary eyed with a smile from ear to ear watching people walk to their cabs with a piece—if only a morsel—of his passion in their eyes...
...light. Arthur M. Sackler Museum. Free. Through Nov. 27. (KAK)The Century of Bach and Mozart: Perspectives on Historiography, Perspectives, Composition and Performance. This joint exhibition features original sheet music from the pillars of classical music, as well as an original watercolor painting by Mozart of…an ear. Houghton and Loeb Music Libraries. Free. Through Dec. 23. (KAK)Paul Robeson as Othello. As the first African-American actor to take the role of Othello in over a century, Paul Robeson won a twenty-minute standing ovation and made his 1943 Broadway show “the most important...