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...worst. An isolated instance of clever wordplay does not an Elvis Costello make. That is not to say that “Grr…” is uniformly without merit. There are moments, few as they are in this album, where Bishop Allen does move beyond the formula. The band is most potent on the four-song stretch from “Dirt on Your Shoes” to “True and False.” “Dirt on Your Shoes” is the strongest, because it is the only song that grows...
Giansanti, of course, had other subjects: World Cup soccer stars, Formula One racers, African tribesmen. He also took searing photographs of the aftermath of the 1985 terrorist attack at Rome's Leonardo da Vinci airport. His last major project was a series of portraits of people he described as Italy's unsung stars in such fields as law, education and geology. But he will be remembered for two things: the death of a premier and the life of a pope...
Rooming: Unreal. N + 1 housing does not exist in Pfoho. And why is that? Because no such formula is needed if everyone is guaranteed a single, a common room, and possibly a kitchen, if you're lucky. And the floor-length windows in Jordan? Just make sure you draw the shades lest the College's residential life Dean Suzy M. Nelson calls the cops on you for the "very indiscreet goings-on" in the privacy of your 125 sqaure-foot bedroom overlooking her backyard...
...status-update formula was simple, declarative: "Claire is working," "Claire is hungry," "Claire is unable to finish this article, so she is procrastinating by checking Facebook." But if I'm hungry and you ask me what's on my mind, what do I say? Do I just type "doughnuts" into the field? Then everyone I know will just see the update "Claire doughnuts...
...wonderfully efficient. It attracted investment capital, generated factory jobs for impoverished farmers, established infrastructure to supercharge commercial development and otherwise produced wealth that South Korea could never have generated by itself. Eager to raise living standards in their own countries, Asian policymakers and business people latched on to that formula. The economies of South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore did so with such success that they became known as the Asian tigers. Their growth model produced miracles--and, as Park said in a 1965 speech, exports were "the economic lifeline...