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David Lynch and Mark Frost made something really weird happen, and I'm not talking about Laura Palmer's murder, a dancing dwarf or a Log Lady. They turned prime-time TV into a giant indie art-house theater, and regular American channel surfers by the millions became its denizens. The story of a teen girl's death--and the pie-eating, deadpan-soliloquy-spouting FBI agent investigating it--carried on the theme from Lynch movies like Blue Velvet of sordid secrets and ancient horrors hidden behind a façade of wholesome Americana, proving that TV could equal or surpass...
...confirmed, cause obesity. Or the opposite. The study concludes that skinny people, likewise, tend to make their friends skinny. In high school, you could have chosen a friend with a six-pack of abs. Instead, you chose a friend with a six-pack of Coors. And that, as Frost wrote, has made all the difference...
Allison A. Frost ’08, a Crimson news editor, is an English and American literature and language and comparative study of religion concentrator in Winthrop House. Thanks to the Center for Public Interest Careers, she can now pay for jelly...
...This time, however, could be different - not least because of the size of McDonald's war chest and its lobbying power. The campaign has already the garnered the support of heavyweight business figures such as Chambers of Commerce Director General David Frost. More impressively, Conservative party Member of Parliament Clive Betts last week introduced a motion into Britain's parliament condemning the pejorative use of McJob. Betts believes the OED should redefine the term: "It would be helpful if the dictionary took the lead on this. It's not a proper and true reflection of the service industry today...
Hopper can bring to mind Robert Frost, another complex operator who was drafted into the role of corn-fed American. Like Frost, Hopper possessed a sophisticated aesthetic camouflaged by the apparent simplicity and straightforwardness of his art. It's true that he wanted American painting to stop taking its marching orders from France. But he was never the honking cultural isolationist that Thomas Hart Benton became, thundering on about the perversities of European art and the prancing New Yorkers who bought into it. By contrast, Hopper made it to Paris no fewer than three times from...