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...people gathered and spent money, because I figured if you had that, you could redirect the money to a good cause," says Werle. That logic led her to bingo halls. "They were totally full of obsessed people," she says. "But it was also extremely boring. So we decided to liven it up in the way that only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Drag Queens Took Over Bingo | 5/2/2007 | See Source »

...little weird, but I suppose that’s the point. Featuring a slower, catchy guitar melody and a singing style that may be Iggy’s nod to 1950s crooners, the title track proves enjoyable. Well-placed saxophones in “Passing Cloud” liven up an otherwise monotonous stretch of the album. “Mexican Guy,” despite its off-color racial humor, does have a infectious beat. Lyrically speaking, the album still exhibits the nihilism and quasi-political fury characteristic of “Raw Power” and punk rock...

Author: By Alina Voronov, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Stooges | 3/15/2007 | See Source »

...winnings and losings add to zero [less than what one must pay for sandwiches]”). At least the blame can partially be placed on the editors, who failed to take out several of the author’s outdated or nonsensical jokes. Perhaps in an attempt to liven up the book, Schelling provides too many examples for concepts that only require one or two. At one point, he even tries to make the book more interactive, coaxing the reader to toss coins in order to better understand how a neighborhood might be spread out racially...

Author: By Alina Voronov, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: TOME RAIDER: Micromotives and Macrobehavior | 10/25/2006 | See Source »

...just 5 minutes in expos or virtually any core class will tell you, contemporary Harvard often seems to be engaged in a mighty struggle to reinvent the wheel. I would suggest that Harvard students could do quite a bit to liven up the campus, and increase the quality and depths of their worldviews, by devoting just a little bit out of their day to becoming better informed about what is going on in the world around them and then talking about it. Simple? Yes. Radical? Maybe. Necessary? Absolutely...

Author: By Mark A. Adomanis | Title: Scarier than Nukes | 10/19/2006 | See Source »

...links between shopping and boredom, shopping and politics (the talk-show host acquires a political following). An incipient fascism sweeps the English motorways from one deracinated mall-town to another. If Kingdom Come has a flaw, it's dialogue that sounds like a lecture on social theory. To liven things up, Ballard marches his shoppers to the brink of armed apocalypse, and he displays an attention to detail that can lull you into suspending disbelief. Especially if you have traveled the new English landscape of soccer thugs, superstores and paved-over villages where, as Pearson says of Brooklands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: His Dark Material | 9/28/2006 | See Source »

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