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...Ideas From the Top of the Charts" is a fine essay anyway, the first I've seen to describe the current divide in rock between the eclectics and the non-eclectics. I'd just love to envision The Strokes and The White Stripes, as well as the immense popularity of the old-school country "O Brother Where Art Thou" soundtrack, as parts of a revolt against the self-conscious eclecticism that has become a rock clich?. That may be wishful thinking - "O Brother Where Art Thou" is most likely a second "Buena Vista Social Club," an anomaly everybody...
...such relevance that it should be seen. Although we are at times asked to look critically at the humanity of the characters, no excuses are made, nor should they be. This production staff and cast has done the community a service by presenting this show, and in such fine form, to keep us thinking...
...comes to movie conventions, there are certain lines that directors just don’t cross. You don’t show actors going to the bathroom. You don’t let them look at the camera. You don’t kill dogs (although murdering people is fine) and you don’t inflict violence or cruelty on children. Frailty obliterates that last boundary in spades as longtime studio actor Bill Paxton moves behind the camera in his feature-film directorial debut...
College counseling services say that, when they advise students, they try to stress the fine line students must walk between getting noticed and going over...
Last week, the New York Times argued that the scholar-athlete, who could perform as well in the classroom as on the field, is a relic of the past—and one to be sorely missed. Athletes, unlike fine musicians or writers, simply cannot “add to the intellectual and cultural stew that makes college campuses exciting.” (To be honest, I doubt I was accepted for this particular reason, either.) Pointing to data collected by James Shulman and William Bowen, the Times dismissed any contributions athletes might make at a school: they self-segregate...