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...band’s sound is so inviting, it’s as if you’re sitting in a carpeted room with the band splayed around you, maybe with a window view of a mid-sized European city—not quite the crammed floor and dark-lit ambience of the Paradise. The Kings hit the scene in 2000 with a self-titled album on Kindercore, but it wasn’t until 2001’s Quiet is the New Loud on Astralwerks that the band entered the critical limelight. That album title was a succinct statement...
Jerks seem to proliferate during shopping period. Some, already knowing that the class isn’t their top-choice Lit and Arts A, sit on the ends of the row, effectively blocking out the dozens of seats between them. On more than one occasion this week I’ve had to clumsily tread my way through a maze of crossed legs and fluorescent colored totes. Why am I the one who has to mumble, “Oh, excuse me”? Attention: you should be apologizing...
...just that. But it stopped being easy this year, when I found myself, for the first time, single at Harvard. Even worse, I realized I had become not just lonely but, well, lame. I submitted e-mail messages to a level of close reading that might have lifted my Lit and Arts Core grade significantly. I spent hours on the facebook and even considered renewing my AIM account. I did embarrassing things in public places. From condescending critic, I evolved to become a part of the problem...
...retrace a thousand years of Turkish culture and a civilization stretching from Central Asia to the Balkans, one need only step inside London's Royal Academy of Arts. "Turks," the institute's latest extravaganza (through April 12), draws visitors into a souk of dimly lit, treasure-filled galleries. Following a timespan from 600 to 1600 A.D., from the nomadic Uighur people of Chinese Central Asia to the Ottoman splendor of Sultan Mehmed III in Istanbul, "Turks" illustrates how successive groups learned from the cultures they encountered and sometimes conquered. It's a tale of assimilation and adaptation in the exotic...
...Japanese. Charley's excitement is enough to inspire his father, and soon the middle-aged literary novelist is parsing the finer points of Akira and Astro Boy. Carey is intrigued enough by this dazzling stuff?he hopes they'll "enter the mansion of Japanese culture through its garish, brightly lit back door"?but his real intention is to connect with Charley, who is on the brink of disappearing into the teenage years. So when Carey takes his son to Tokyo, where he arranges for them to interview Charley's favorite anim? directors and manga artists, he's really becoming...