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They met cute. In 1967, Smith was a dreamy 20-year-old from a blue collar family. She was obsessed with art, film and books, and her taste in decadent demigods was impeccable, from Charles Baudelaire to William Burroughs. But she was drifting into a prosaic life. The previous year she had gotten pregnant, dropped out of a teachers' college, placed the baby with an adoptive family and started punching a clock in a textbook factory. In desperation she lunged for New York City with her drawing pencils and a copy of Rimbaud. Straight off the bus she headed...
Shannon Carney, a 22-year-old assistant producer for National Geographic's science show Known Universe, has been equally impressed by Montag's willingness to entertain, but the album, plus Montag's extreme plastic surgery, has made her less of a fan. "The world was her stage, and her life was a show," Carney says. "Unfortunately, it looks like she bought tickets to her own show." Carney thinks it's highly unlikely that Montag's music career will continue: "All 658 of us are not going to rally to go to a Heidi Montag concert." If they did, it would...
Moderate Republicans sometimes blame conservatives for edging them out of public life. But politics is a competitive business. If the conservatives bring more voters, more dollars and more intensity to the table, well, of course they get the bigger chair. They've earned it. The fault is with the moderates themselves. The moderate tendency still exists in the GOP. It expresses itself in quiet dealmaking in the halls of the Senate, in pragmatic decision-making in state capitals. But when challenged, the moderate tendency goes mute. (See 10 GOP congressional contenders...
...insult to injury, Burke's brother Kevin F. Burke '10 referred to the defeated Northeastern team members as "the biggest dweebs I've met in my entire life...
With the Gothic eaves of Annenberg and the presence of a real-life Quidditch team, people are always saying that Harvard is a little bit like Hogwarts—which would be true save for the fact that students here don't wear robes. Or so we thought. Now, with the “Currier Bathrobe Projekt,” it seems that robes (well, bathrobes to be specific) will have a much more visible presence on campus, especially up in the Quad...