Word: frostings
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...mediocrity and overwhelming bias, “The Narnian” demonstrates the power of Lewis’ imagination to both sustain and inspire. Jacobs’ point (and Lewis’) is that the power, ultimately, is in the story itself.—Staff writer Allison A. Frost can be reached at afrost@fas.harvard.edu...
...dead-on Swedish Jason Schwartzman/Luke Wilson mash-up, is lost at night in some Northland woods, carrying a shiny red suitcase past electronics, musical instruments, and various band members strewn about in the snow, singing all the while. Little Red Riding Hood? The Chronicles of Narnia? Robert Frost? Obviously the Shout Out Louds are on par with the best of literary-metaphoric writers. Or are they? What does it all mean? A lamp that, when lit, turns day to night...a path beaten back and forth through birch trees...a burnished red suitcase succumbing to the snow? The weight...
...place that, after the season ends and the suitcases bang closed and the car doors slam shut, falls silent. Or does it? Banks' poetic text and Hallensleben's richly impastoed paintings guide us through the deserted rooms, evoking the dripping of a kitchen faucet, the buckling and crackling of frost on the windows, the ruffling of a cat shaking snowflakes from its fur, even the silence of a bird sitting on its nest in the loft. At length the patter of rain heralds spring, and soon children's shouts and the clump of feet on the back stairs start another...
...Fellow Benjamin Ginsberg, who was a counsel for both Bush-Cheney campaigns, said he found it “troubling” that politicians are forced to resort to campaign tactics to draw the public’s attention away from murder trials and other sensational news. Fellow Martin Frost, a former U.S. Representative, D-Texas, noted the current political polarization. He said that Reagan was the last president truly to seek bipartisan support, because his party’s majority in Congress was so slim that cooperation was necessary to get anything done. But Adam Nagourney, chief political correspondent...
...goal of voting on legislation by the end of the academic year.“The greatest resource we have...[is] the ideas and energy of the people in this room,” said Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby.—Staff writer Allison A. Frost can be reached at afrost@fas.harvard.edu...