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Often, Naked comes off simply as lowbrow comedy in highbrow style, though the book's finest moment, in "ashes," is a haunting and serious meditation on his mother's death from cancer. But when we arrive at the final essay, the title piece, we realize Sedaris wants to do more than be funny. He spends time in a nudist colony not only to poke fun at people but also to be able to present the world in all its unadorned vericose-veininess, its rippling obesity and sexual deformity: not a bright or pleasant vision, but a deftly-delivered one that...
...Handel's music was originally performed, the Academy succeeded in decreasing distances and blurring the boundaries between stage and audience. In the end, both shared a euphoric experience. The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields reminds one that classical music is not meant to be a stodgy highbrow event, but a form of exchange...
While most Moscow papers and commentators praised the Kremlin's openness, the highbrow daily Nezavisimaya Gazeta noted that "had the news been known before the presidential elections, the results would have been substantially different." This may be precisely what Yeltsin and his entourage had in mind. At the price of frequent political embarrassment and perhaps some cost to Yeltsin's chances of recovery, they suppressed news of his ill health long enough for the country to enter what is by Russian standards something akin to political normality. Six months ago, after all, the favorites to succeed Yeltsin were people like...
...Massachusetts senatorial race went high-tech--and highbrow--yesterday afternoon when candidates William F. Weld '66 and John F. Kerry spoke about issues facing the state's biotechnology industry at the Genetics Institute...
...syphilis, which some scholars think Beethoven may have had. They'd also like to know if he took any medicine for the terrible diarrhea he reportedly suffered; his hair might reveal that too. It won't help anyone better appreciate the Ninth Symphony. But it might make for some highbrow gossip...