Word: jabs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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APPARENTLY, I'VE BEEN GIVING THE WRONG ADVICE about what to do if you meet a bear in the woods. It may be that a sharp jab to the bear's nose is not the ticket after...
...Just a short jab," I always say. "Don't get any big ideas about letting go with one of those roundhouse rights you've seen in the movies. While you're winding up, that bear'll claw your stomach out." I know that sounds gruesome, but better safe than sorry...
Other works seem to threaten a powder-keg of tensions, hidden under a ominous veneer. Long Nguyen's "Soul Boat No. 7" -- the title itself a sardonic jab -- seethes with the Hades-like passage of a boat slowly assuming the shape and qualities of its passengers. The nightmarish metamorphosis, replete with shadily defined forms and oil gloops that seem to jump out at selected spots, continues to haunt the viewer with its fearsome evocation of adaptation and voyage gone awry...
...intelligence and figure out creative new ways to procrastinate. There are some time-honored procrastination techniques that should be familiar to all. One of my personal favorites is the two hour lunch. Assuming that you're not dining at L'Espalier, lunch should not take two hours. (The expected jab at Harvard Dining Services is just too easy...
...like to add a few more parting shots before I sign off: perhaps a last jab at the Republican Congress that thinks it can cut taxes and the deficit at the same time; or a jeer at the Core program's limited choice and lack of a consistent mission; maybe even a bittersweet good-bye to the cash-strapped Undergraduate Council, which has finally taken the wise path of popular elections...