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...those who really like to keep their finger on the pulse of the student body, there is an “Endpaper” at the back of each issue. This is essentially a personal essay in which students describe how ostensibly lame and depressing their lives are and then try to flip the script and claim that they are perfectly content. They generally achieve this effect through flowery prose, self-delusion, and false claims that they “go into Boston a lot.” In other words, if you’re thinking of killing yourself...
...10’’ wearing heels, I almost always am—not only are you left with black and blues, but tired quads and achy knees. Sounds more like running stadiums than dancing to reggaeton.Perhaps I was spoiled by a finger-snapping father who pulled my sisters and I onto the dance-floor as soon as “Mac the Knife” began to play, by my party-loving mother who taught us each how to fox-trot at an early age, or by my grandparents, Kathryn and Arthur Murray, who spawned a generation...
...term loosely) in some sort of vaguely-defined warehouse environment, he and his bandmates indulge in heterosexual man-hugs, random flaunting of jewelry, and unforgivably literal interpretation of lyrics. The last is most annoying; all the pointing on the word “you,” finger-walking on the word “walk,” and flinging apart of arms on the word “free” might have been intended to be dramatic, but instead look like a half-assed sign language translation. In case the gestures weren’t obvious enough...
...whole to-do is an elaborate tea party of sorts, where mother and father have provisioned the youngsters with fancy dresses and lace, cucumber finger sandwiches (crusts off, mais oui) and have steeped the tea for them. All the aspirant sophisticates must do is pour...
...other Kong paraphernalia, they were not ready until the production was well along ... Finally the huge paws were ready, and [producer Dino] De Laurentiis was summoned to the set to witness a test. Amidst high excitement, the great arm extended in the producer's direction and then the middle finger slowly uncurled and extended itself in the gesture recently granted respectability by the Vice President of the U.S. De Laurentiis broke up. Unfortunately, however, so did the giant arm--freezing, finger up, for a week. -- TIME...