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It’s certainly fitting that the proposed new curriculum describes its categories in terms of the meaningless jibber-jabber that can easily turn a section into purgatory. “Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding” sounds like the kind of filler one uses to impress a typically disinterested teaching fellow (TF) when one hasn’t done any of the assigned reading. Courses in this category will leave students able to analyze “primary texts and/or works of art…in the context of a theoretical framework.” This...
...Watanabe of “The Last Samurai” plays Kuribayashi. Watanabe never fails to impress, and in “Letters,” he delivers a powerful performance as the American-trained general whose must constantly prove that his personal and patriotic convictions are one in the same...
...feel like your requisite hoodie and Uggs are getting kind of drab, look to the center of the fashion world for inspiration on how to dress to impress and catch the eye of your hot TF. Check out the MFA’s Fashion Show: Paris Collections 2006 to see how it’s done right. Students get a 10% discount at the gift shop, so grab a Dior scarf at entirely reasonable prices while you’re there...
Then there is Sofia, which has the air of being on the cusp of discovery. (Impress your hipper friends by talking about how you visited after tiring of Prague.) The taxi driver from the airport was surprised to learn that I was American, as were vendors in the fruit market, although everyone under 30, it seemed, spoke English. Road signs in the capital are in Cyrillic, and Old World and communist-era charms abound--men in chapeaux, women with bright red dye jobs--but there are also plenty of skinny young things running around in tight jeans and tall boots...
...sand in a borrowed backhoe, while Gary Craycroft, who had last hung swings for his baby daughter Penny, now put them up with her help. Said Penny, 14: "It's been neat. I'll never forget working at night with the lights on." But Leathers is out to impress the adults as much as their children. "They start out as cynics, but when the countdown begins, and the kids stream in, they start to cry," he says. Leathers assures his clients that his playgrounds will last at least 25 years, but the memories are guaranteed for a lifetime...