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...owes a little of the tone to the Coen Brothers, borrowing both an occasional snappy inventiveness of language (e.g. Billings' dissection of humans' "homeostasis") and a general tactic of grounding anything lofty--ideas and ideals, or here just decency--through bizarre, often inappropriate juxtaposition with the mundane. For the latter, think of The Big Lebowski's Walter and The Dude solemnly scattering their friend's ashes from a Quaker Oats box, into the wind. Thus DeGeneres' Pompano wolfs a corndog while questioning the distraught wife of the murdered. Or Billings at an autopsy, blood-sprayed by a being-buzzawed skull...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Back to Black | 4/16/1999 | See Source »

Mager and Keck did the early damage, with the former driving in four runs on a triple and a single and the latter knocking home a pair and scoring a pair on a double and a single...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Baseball 3-1 on Opening Weekend | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

Mager and Keck did the early damage, with theformer driving in four runs on a triple and asingle and the latter knocking home a pair andscoring a pair on a double and a single...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Baseball Goes 3-1 Vs. Gehrig Division Foes | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...summer at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston), he has a big public. Are its crowded galleries just another symptom of the explosion in the size of the public for U.S. museums? Or is there a new audience out there for the pictorial virtuosity Sargent represents? The latter, one hopes, but it's hard to tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A True Visual Sensualist | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

Born in Cambridge, England, in 1883, the year Karl Marx died, Keynes probably saved capitalism from itself and surely kept latter-day Marxists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Economist JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

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