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...tablescape is everything that is on the table: how the food is arranged, how close it is to us, what the plate looks like. It can also be whether the table is lit by candlelight, spotlight or fluorescent light. The tablescape not only influences how much we enjoy food; it has tremendous impact on how much we eat. We find that people who serve themselves from slightly smaller serving bowls serve themselves a smaller amount. With snacks, they end up taking 50% more if they were served in a large bowl rather than a small bowl. The same thing happens...
...last decade, some European directors (Catherine Breillat, Gaspar Noe) have made serious dramas with explicit sexual elements; but these forays could be pretty dour. Nobody I'm aware of had tried a light-hearted X-rated social comedy. All hail, then, to writer-director John Cameron Mitchell, who wrote and starred in the off-Broadway musical hit Hedwig and the Angry Inch, for pretending the last 30 years didn't make hard-core romance obsolete. Shortbus is so retro, it seems sparkling...
...advent of hotels, businesses, and more pedestrians, he said. “The foresight should have been there,” Adkins added. The community has, in fact, recently taken steps to shore up safety on the road. The Cambridgeport Neighborhood Initiative successfully urged authorities to place a light and crosswalk at the intersection of Memorial Drive and Pleasant Street, said the group’s Co-chair Eli Yarden. But it’s up to residents to stop using the parkway as a high-speed commuter highway, he added. “What is needed...
...court’s failure to find Kelleher guilty of “intent to intimidate” has shed light on a phenomenon that several attorneys and criminal law professors say is a reality in the legal system today: Perhaps easy to prosecute in the court of public opinion, hate crimes are just much too difficult to prosecute in a court...
...negotiated this out-of-court settlement finds himself often presiding over the cases of Harvard students. The district attorney’s office would not comment on the rationale behind Sprague’s decision, but the judge’s undergraduate experience at the College might shed light on his views.A BLUE-BLOOD CRIMSONITETed McKinney ’60, who lived a floor above the judge during their freshman year, said Sprague was a focused student with conservative tendencies. Fellow classmate Foley Vaughn ’60 wrote in an e-mail that Sprague was “very...