Word: expression
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Third Eye Blind: My Anti-Drug? Look, I understand that all of the rules of music snobbery dictate that I am no longer cool if I express my fondness for a band that talked about suicide in a non-detached ironic way. (Please don’t step out from that ledge, my friend! Please!) Whatever. Third Eye Blind remains perhaps the only band I know of that somehow willingly tricked parents into letting their children listen to songs encouraging cocaine and crystal meth use. What could they do? “Two lines of coke I cut with Drano/And...
...afterwards, all anyone wanted to talk about was Iraq. The scrum of reporters outside the Straight Talk Express was thick and vaguely hostile, tossing repeated questions about the few paragraphs in the speech that mentioned the war. In what might be the single most depressing understatement of the year, McCain noted it "has not gone well." But anyone expecting a shift in policy was disappointed. Rather, he reiterated the points that he had previewed to Jon Stewart the night before - that we made mistakes getting into the war, that we shouldn't make the same mistakes again and well, there...
...presence, and—most important—“airness.” “The formal definition of airness,” explains Jung, “is the extent to which the performance transcends the act of imitation and becomes a form of artistic expression unto itself.” Though it is easy to spot “airness” when it is displayed, the quality is not at all easy to attain, and many lesser air guitarists have failed in their mission to achieve it.At that first competition, I witnessed...
...Broadway last May and foregrounds the similarities between the experiences of 9/11 survivors and victims of sexual abuse. After taking a moment to put herself in character, the sunny Tran emerged as the tough-talking Violet. Having described how she swiped a woman’s wallet in the express elevator just as the North Tower was struck, Violet drew a disconcerting comparison between herself and her sexual abusers. “All the shit I’ve been through. All those fat men my mom brought home. Want me to call them Daddy, then do me like...
...writing as board members and alumni of Harvard’s Diversity & Distinction (D&D) magazine to express our extreme disappointment at the inaccurate depiction of our publication in the Crimson’s recent article, “Groups on the Brink.” The article overlooked Diversity & Distinction’s many accomplishments, instead portraying a misleadingly negative picture of the publication’s financial status. In so doing, the author missed an opportunity to tell the truth: that Diversity & Distinction provides an inspiring success story of a student organization that has overcome financial challenges...