Word: inventors
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...readers are left wondering just how deep Ellis' empathy runs. Last week Ellis, an icon on the South Hadley, Mass., campus of Mount Holyoke College, where he has taught for the past 29 years, was exposed as an inventor of his own world of imaginative appeal. For several years Ellis has been using tales from his days as a platoon leader and paratrooper in Vietnam to help animate his popular course Vietnam War and American Culture. As his fame increased, Ellis began sharing his war stories with journalists and colleagues. The problem is that Ellis never served in Vietnam...
...readers are left wondering just how deep Ellis' empathy runs. Last week Ellis, an icon on the South Hadley, Mass., campus of Mount Holyoke College, where he has taught for the past 29 years, was exposed as an inventor of his own world of imaginative appeal. For several years Ellis has been using tales from his days as a platoon leader and paratrooper in Vietnam to help animate his popular course Vietnam War and American Culture. As his fame increased, Ellis began sharing his war stories with journalists and colleagues. The problem is that Ellis never served in Vietnam...
...jewelry, as well as racks of pirated videos and discs. Outside, televisions air graphic advertisements for clinics offering breast enlargements and other cosmetic surgeries. Dr. Cao Mengjun says his Fuhua Plastic and Aesthetic Hospital sees more than 2,000 people a year, half from Hong Kong. Cao is the inventor of "Amazing Gel," a filling agent injected straight into the body, and he offers everything from freckle-removal and teeth-whitening to "maidenhead recovery." Shenzhen's health authorities list eye-widening as the most requested alteration: the city's 1,600 cosmetic surgeons will open up an average...
...Saturday, my mom lost one of her most formidable adversaries when Cliff Hillegass, inventor of the little yellow books, died at the age of 83. Hillegass abdicated responsibility for his eponymous Notes when he sold the company for $14 million back in 1999, but the cheerful yellow and black design, which has served as a beacon for lazy or overworked high schoolers since 1958, remains the same...
Joey Ramone passed away last Sunday from complications from lymphoma. As lead singer of the Ramones, he was a crucial part of the New York punk scene and part-inventor of lots of things punk, most notably the stripping of pop to its rawest elements: guitars, drums and four chords. And for all that we here at the Arts section salute him. Check out “I Wanna Be Sedated” or “Blitzkrieg Bop” —fast, cheap and out of control, these are songs that clock in and out in under...