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...experimentation, but experimentation in spite of form. The parameters and the expectations have become more apparent, but a sense of purpose or identity is startlingly absent.Few albums illustrate this dichotomy, or more precisely, the transitional turmoil that leads to it, more obviously than Deerhunter’s full-length debut, 2007’s “Cryptograms.” That album interchanged relatively light pop songs with long, carefully orchestrated instrumental passages, all covered in a fog of ambient fuzz. The term “ambient” has long slipped out of any useful connotation?...
...Quynh L. “Quinn” Dang’s model kicked it old school in a black and white floor-length jersey dress inspired by Puritan Minister Cotton Mather, Class of 1678. Dang’s goal was to take the “pure out of Puritan.” A quick spin down the runway, with the detachable caplet in hand, showed off a revealing, low-cut back. Would Mather have been pleased? Shocked? God only knows...
...pure. I put a sexy twist on what would be the color scheme of that time period. It seems very neutral, but the designs and the lines are very contemporary.” Dang’s vision is realized in her final product—a floor length backless black gown, with white asymmetric cutouts around the midsection, and an added cape for flare. “I’m taking all the elements and color that were part of the theme for Cotton Mather and putting my own style to it,” she says...
...place incredible strain on the planet’s resources.” Another notorious offense is, apparently, hot showers, which account for “two thirds of all water heating costs.” Students can do their part by “shortening the length of [their] showers or turning down the water temperature.” And to think Lent is still four months away...
...Palin’s view on scientific questions, including teaching creationism in public schools, which he described as “not consistent with a modern view of the world.”THE LONELY CAUSEBoth Mansfield and Ruth R. Wisse, professor of Yiddish and comparative literature, spoke at length about the difficulties facing Republican-voting faculty at Harvard.Mansfield estimated that within the 50-person government department, there are three or four conservative professors.“For a department that wants to teach politics, that’s outrageous,” Mansfield said. “The weaknesses...