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...life. Neither side has it quite right. The photograph does show Simone de Beauvoir as she was, but because of its complexity, not its impropriety. Beauvoir was a walking paradox: liberated but still dissatisfied, independent but jealous, sexual but romantic, and, above all, the kind of woman who could laugh about a nude picture. By the standards of her bourgeois upbringing, Beauvoir did live an unorthodox life. She earned a living with her mind, having aced France’s most hallowed philosophy exam to come second only to Jean-Paul Sartre, with whom she founded the existentialist school...

Author: By Alice J Gissinger | Title: On a Beau Voir Beauvoir | 1/14/2008 | See Source »

...When we first started making up some songs for the Capitol Steps, he started writing charts with little arrows like you’d see in football games, and stage directions for each song,” she said with a laugh. “He basically wrote a whole book on where each person would stand...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Political Satirist Strauss Dies at 60 | 1/7/2008 | See Source »

...worth the effort, not because The Wire is good for you but because it is fantastic entertainment. Like The Sopranos, it's laugh-out-loud funny, full of gallows humor and hustles. In the first scene of Season 5, detectives use a low-tech scam to work a confession from a perp: they load a photocopier with papers reading TRUE and FALSE and convince him it's a lie detector. "The bigger the lie," says a cop, "the more they believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Connecting the Dots | 1/3/2008 | See Source »

...better that way than endlessly prerehearsing, sanitizing, homogenizing, pasteurizing everything you say to the point of macrobiotic extinction." Some voters will be charmed by such candor. Others will question his suitability to speak for London. But win or lose, Johnson is already performing a public service by making Britons laugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Clown Prince | 1/3/2008 | See Source »

...assume it is going to be a no-brainer,” Hauser said with a laugh. “I’m the adviser for [the student sex magazine] H-Bomb, and that was a real challenge...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Look To Bring ‘Sexy’ Back to Science | 1/3/2008 | See Source »

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