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...back. Each discipline could help the other. Those stratospheric Maytag repairmen from the Endeavour might be hired to wire the TV set of the future for 500 channels, and then maybe the gene wizards could splice some decent programming into it. Biosphere II might be a good place to lock away all those fun couples -- Burt and Loni, John and Lorena, Ted and Whoopi -- until they sort things out. But this is science fiction, mere dreamery. Art doesn't solve problems any more than (pace Janet Reno) it creates them. What art does, or did this year, is review those...
...unsettling,” she said. “It’s bothersome at night to walk around.” Broadnax said she wishes that more of the gates to nearby Harvard Yard would remain unlocked at night. “I know that they lock the gate for safety reasons. It’s also a reverse safety issue if you want to get into the safety of the Yard and out of the street,” she said. The HUPD advisory reports that the victim described her alleged assailant as a Hispanic male of about...
Forget Cherry Garcia, Chunky Monkey and Rainforest Crunch. The next hot new flavor at Ben & Jerry's Homemade could be called Lock-'n'-Load Rocky Road. The quirky maker of superpremium ice cream began the new year by scooping up gun-industry executive Perry Odak to fill a two-month vacancy as its new CEO. Odak most recently was chief operating officer of U.S. Repeating Arms Co., the maker of Winchester rifles, and he brings 25 years of consumer-marketing savvy to Ben & Jerry's (est. 1996 sales: $175 million), which could sorely use some executive firepower...
...While The New Yorker praised that “Jimmy Corrigan” was “viciously depressing” in the best sense of art, a friend of mine put it best: “Reading ‘Jimmy Corrigan’ made me want to lock myself in and gain 30 pounds...
...elements, is covered over by other works or is taken away ("buffed" is the term). "I've had dogs s___ on my work," says Leon Reid, a.k.a. Darius Jones, 26, who makes tiny anthropomorphic figures out of bricks that he mostly places at ground level. "I've had people lock their bikes to pieces I've made. But I guess that's part of what this is all about...