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Would you wear a mock-turtleneck catsuit? A ball gown that covers only your lower half? How about a Speedo with a strip of fabric that extends up your torso and around your neck, for an aquatic S&M look...
...Half history lesson, half celebrity exposé, author Alix Strauss's new book, Death Becomes Them: Unearthing the Suicides of the Brilliant, the Famous, and the Notorious, is a pop-culture take on one of society's most painful topics. Focusing on 20 famous figures who took their own lives, Death Becomes Them provides the backstories behind the tragic and manic last days of icons ranging from Kurt Cobain to Vincent van Gogh to Virginia Woolf. Equally sad and shocking, Strauss's profiles help fans and cult followers better understand how these brilliant, tortured souls crossed the line from depression...
...work of a man who believes what he reads in Wikipedia. In particular, the book suffers from an ill-advised fling with something called noetic science, which explores the idea that human consciousness can affect the physical world, thereby providing (as we are reminded twice in the space of half a page) the "link between modern science and ancient mysticism." (Unlike symbology, noetic science is, amazingly, a real thing...
...guild the walls of Adams dining hall, we’d rather be able to sit down to a hot breakfast. Eat the gold dome we cannot. 6) We can get drunk in public without spending thousands to have Sarah Bareilles serenade us with the one song we know. Half of us didn’t make it to Yardfest anyhow. And the other half probably don’t remember it. 5) Folklore and Mythology department. Sanskrit. All departments with less than ten people. Sorry guys, but can’t you just consolidate into...
...books—may be just what’s needed to help spur a conceptual shift in the way we think about how women think. After all, the issue is not just about how to make an interesting movie. It’s about how a society represents half of its population to itself...