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Shleifer took a paid sabbatical and returned to the classroom this semester. Even with the publication of a scathing, 18,000-word article in Institutional Investor, a high-brow finance journal, outlining the evidence against Shleifer early this year, economics Professor David I. Laibson ’88 told The Crimson in April, “We think about him not as the guy who was involved in the AID lawsuit—we think about him as the exciting, intellectually active colleague that we’ve always known...
...here first. The video for their best song, “Very Loud,” fits just about perfectly. It’s mostly some bewildered traipsing about in the woods, but thankfully directors Ted (the bassist) and Tom (a bassist in another Swedish band) Malmros avoid the high-brow, high-budget traipsing of Coldplay’s nerdy video for “The Scientist.” No sir, it’s just good, clean (cheap) fun for THIS European pop-rock getup. As it turns out, this Malmros team is responsible...
Many will be curious to see how Ferrell fares in high-brow comedy. The frenzied quality of Hobie’s self-repression may lend the film an undercurrent of energy, but there is also that nagging feeling that Ferrell is just itching to rip off his clothes and make a penis joke. With little room for off-the-cuff physical comedy and a wishy-washy part, Ferrell languishes...
...funny. An article on the high-brow world of polo players was titled “Polo Is My Life: Fear and Loathing in Horse Country.” In the opening section, he describes being trapped in a stall while his ‘Uncle Lawless’ beats a rabid horse with a two-by-four; the horse “commit[s] suicide” by biting the trigger on Lawless?...
...told Bentley. ?I was trying to give sex a good name in a context of a lifestyle magazine.? How very true. Playboy wasn?t just about the sex. It was about being accepted by the arbiters of 50s middle-browism. That brow has disappeared. Now there?s a tiny high-brow culture and a vast low- or no-brow one. Playboy and Hef stayed in the center that did not hold...