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Viewer beware: You may grow disoriented trying to keep track of whether Hot Chip frontman Alexis Taylor is Batman’s old rival the Joker or an innocent guy singing about romantic aspirations on the dance floor. However, this visual confusion just adds to the hypnotic quality of “Ready for the Floor,” another colorful video from the British dance outfit. The first few seconds of the video position Hot Chip’s world inside a much more somber one, with rain pouring down on an uninviting gray factory. But the lights switch...

Author: By Olga A. Moskvina, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hot Chip | 12/14/2007 | See Source »

...myself, I gained consciousness; nature is a miracle in the know-how it has provided, ready, in all its millions of varieties of eggs: I hatched from my minute containment that the human eye never could have detected on the lettuce, the raw meat, the finger, and began to grow myself. Segment by segment. Measuredly,” he (it?) says.His narration is punningly comical. But the depiction of a parasite coming into subjectivity is simply a reductio an absurdum.Following up its anthropomorphized subject with a revivified one, the collection’s trajectory careens even further towards the absurd...

Author: By Alison S. Cohn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nobel Winner’s ‘Beethoven’ an Uneven Performance | 12/14/2007 | See Source »

Globally, debit is becoming a bigger way to pay, in terms of the number of transactions, than charging credit. Debit has tended to grow up in stores or merchants that were doing business with cash and check. If you go back 20 years ago, you couldn't use a credit card in any grocery store in the United States, basically. It was a rarity. In the U.S., debit is catching up real fast with the rest of the world. MasterCard debit is growing at 15% to 20% per year. That plays into the global capabilities of the organization because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Credit Cards and Spendthrifts | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

...there is no way to separate it from her.” Doolin adds that Youpee-Roll also has mad skills on the Nintendo Wii. “She definitely defies the stereotype that girls aren’t good at video games,” Doolin says. Growing up on Fort Peck Reserve in Poplar, Mont. Youpee-Roll was quickly exposed to the economic struggles of much of the Native American community in the United States. Her mother, Florence, describes the reserve as a “depressed, dysfunctional society where it is hard for kids to grow...

Author: By Jay M. Cohen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: April Youpee-Roll | 12/12/2007 | See Source »

...College Theatre, thinks the state of affairs for the past five decades has been a good one.“Thank goodness Harvard doesn’t have a Drama concentration,” Kopit says.In the chaotic environment of the drama scene, Kopit says he was able to grow academically as a writer in the liberal arts setting, not focusing solely on drama. While some current students opt to create their own drama program via a special concentration, many who are deeply involved in drama prefer keeping their academic life separate from the theatrical.Literature concentrator Kara E. Kaufman...

Author: By Alexander B. Cohn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Drama’s 300-Year Struggle | 12/7/2007 | See Source »

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