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...into a new habitat and context, where they mean something else. On these walls, they symbolize an intrinsic bond between the post-bohemian artistic anarchy of graffiti culture and the mercurial lunatic fringe that underground music has long occupied.The basement room that comprises Twisted Village is dusty and poorly lit, but an anxious potential crackles through the atmosphere; it’s the same potential that can resonate in the remote stacks of a rare book room or in a long-ignored film archive. This is the potential of new information, of a new breed of art. Much...
...Sitting in his warmly lit study, books lining the shelves from wall-to-wall, Porter seems disconnected from the buzz emanating from the bustling dining hall just outside his door...
...thrill of the risk. Earlier this year, when I visited CERN, my tour group included a father and his slouching, intensely apathetic teenage son. It wasn't until the tour guide mentioned that a helium leak could fell a man on the spot that the youngster's eyes lit up, practically dancing with visions of white-coated scientists crumpling to the floor like unstrung marionettes. "So, this thing could just kill us all," he said. "So, it's a death ray!" The father murmured, "Well, I'm not sure that's correct-" Too late. The son said, "Cool...
...solid group of Cores for continuing upperclassmen, we are faced with a meager smattering of both. There are either one or zero offerings available in each of the Gen Ed categories this fall, and many Core fields are equally scarce, such as Literature and Arts C. (Only two Lit and Arts C course will be offered in the fall, and only three will be offered in the spring.)It is disappointing that the Committee on General Education recommends that members of the class of 2012 continue under the Core. With the debut of a slate of Gen Ed offerings, this...
...portrait of vagabond right wing radio host John Ziegler that penetrates the sad fluorescent-lit subculture of talk radio and expresses true disdain for some of Ziegler's politics. Yet Wallace is filled with admiration for the skills - "skills so specialized that many of them don't have names" - that make Ziegler good at his job. In one typically electric paragraph, he challenges the reader to appreciate some of these skills...