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...known as the implicit-association test (IAT), a way of exploring the instant connections the brain draws between races and traits. Previously administered only in the lab but now available online (at implicit.harvard.edu) the IAT asks people to pair pictures of white or black faces with positive words like joy, love, peace and happy or negative ones like agony, evil, hurt and failure. Speed is everything, since the survey tests automatic associations. When respondents are told to link the desirable traits to whites and the undesirable ones to blacks, their fingers fairly fly on the keys. When the task...
...line was uttered in frustration over the Don’s inability to legitimize his mob empire and escape a life of crime. If Ho–a junior running back–were to make the same statement, it would probably carry with it a tone of joy and redemption...
...there will be moments now when Susan will doubt herself, calling out Christopher, are you sure you haven’t seen my shoe?” While Olive’s actions may be shocking, they make the reader admire her for creating a unique way to find joy and amusement from her shear disappointment of losing her son to a woman she neither likes nor trusts. After completing “Olive Kitteridge,” I decided that my fears of living alone are not foolish, but universal. When Olive finds a man recently passed...
...against gay marriage, you can’t deny that Lohan’s name has appeared far less frequently with the word “cocaine” since she started seeing Ronson. Between Perry’s playful experimentation, California’s flamboyant joy, and Lohan’s newfound stability, lesbianism was suddenly the wholesome choice. It was out in the open, the Band-Aid that would hide, if not heal, the pain of a bruising couple of months...
...before you assume that this is a band that takes itself too seriously, consider the infectious “Halfway Home,” the wisely-chosen album opener. An ominous drum rhythm reminiscent of Joy Division is juxtaposed with carefree doo-wops, and the effect resonates in such a way that even the most pretentious art house snob can’t resist the temptation to dance. The song’s light-hearted but haunting at the same time...