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...story of the late-blooming, sensitive Brown and his mid-twenties relationship with a young woman named Allisyn, who has considerably more sexual experience than he. Brown pulls apart the moments of his first real relationship into short flashes of a few pages. Some are the kind of low-key incidents that stay in our mind long after, like when he gives her a pair of his tube-socks. Other scenes are more dramatic. Each one has title, the only noticeable editorializing in the book. "Sure," for example, depicts Brown and his girlfriend Allisyn in bed, fully clothed, talking about...
...necessary to attend one of three different college application camps that give students “the edge.” The new fad for highly-motivated, college-bound teens is to spend part of their summer vacation learning how to beat the competition at purportedly low-key college application camps that offer SAT preparation, mock interviews, essay polishing and admissions strategies. Welcome to the world of Camp Get-Into-Harvard...
...face when applying to colleges. The Musiker program insists on its website that “the school you attend will help determine your future—your career, your lifetime friends, even where you’ll live and work after college”—a low-key message indeed. College admissions camps simply exploit the fears of anxious parents and overachieving students to line their pockets. They portray the college admissions process as a ridiculous, high-stakes game whose solutions only they can provide—and for a preposterous...
Retreating to the considerably more low-key Senior Common Room, Stills remained a bit ill at ease, preferring not to talk until there was complete silence so he could collect his thoughts. But once he got going, he could hardly stop, holding court with a constant stream of wisecracks, anecdotes and wisdom on music and politics...
Ideal first date: Something low-key where we can grab a few drinks and then see where things...