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...Matthew North? He still looks a little limp while dangling from gym equipment, and the blue eyes peering above a sprinkling of freckles gaze warily at people he doesn't know. But the boy who couldn't catch a beach ball last summer is now learning Tae Kwon Do and even soccer. "I saved a couple of goals," he admits, with a little prompting from Mom. That sounds an awful lot like recovery--from whatever it is that ails him.n...
...into a blind whirlwind of American tourism. Such a devolution is risky, because tourism is an industry that caters to its customers; thus it often has a large impact on local cultural practices. Scholars have raised many concerns about this commodification of culture; as Robert Shepard writes, the tourist gaze has the power to turn culture into a spectacle and local peoples into facades of themselves —one thinks of Dave Eggers’ mountain porters on Kilimanjaro. It is sad irony that international travel can lead to the very destruction of the cultures it intends to appreciate...
FM’s prediction: As long as you only attract the laughs of bystanders and not the gaze of Johnny-law with your debauchery, it should be a good time...
From the earliest months, a healthy baby engages in an astonishing range of social behaviors. Most will begin smiling back at a loved one in the first four months of life. Most will follow a parent's gaze with their own eyes by eight months. Most will also study a caregiver's facial expressions and mimic exhibits of fear, surprise or delight with their own tiny features. They will babble a conversation back and forth by nine months, respond to their names by 10 months, and begin to point to a desired toy or treat by around a year...
...everyone’s favorite Canadian indie supergroup used to involve drag queens, bulldozers, jerky dance moves, or David Cross cameos. Nothing so exciting drops by in this clip: Two kids (real-life couple Sam and Andrea from Brooklyn art punk band Courtier) sit on a dilapidated loveseat and gaze into each other’s eyes for a bit. She looks like she’s going to eat him; he blinks a lot. On-and-off ensemble member Neko Case perches wistfully on an antique chair and belts out to no one in particular, tapping her sneakers...