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...tall as you please in the center of its own mess.I couldn’t clean it. I’d never touched it after putting it up there so I certainly wouldn’t now. When she’d bought it for me, Mama had only said, “Now that’s something” as she watched the canary eye me plucky from the palm of my lace glove. (Maybe she explained the one for Quinn better—“pheasants are mindful, just like you?...

Author: By Nathan D. Johnson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Featured Fiction | 2/20/2009 | See Source »

...honeyed richness of his voice even more. Now it’s incessantly cloying and sickly sweet all of the time. But even as he’s aged, he’s clung to his heavy electric guitars. There’s swirling distortion in “Mama Lay Softly On the Riverbed” that clashes with the vocals and squeezed-in synthesized organ. “All You Need is Me” ultimately manages to harmonize Morrissey’s fussy vocals with the backing guitars, but only after the initially heavy instrumentation is abandoned...

Author: By Sanders I. Bernstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Morrissey | 2/20/2009 | See Source »

...Gomorrah, called Gomorra in Italy and based on the best-selling exposé by Roberto Saviano, is probably the bleakest, least sentimental study of the Mafia in Italian or American film history. In its depiction of the Camorra crime family, there are no good guys, no crusading cops, no mama pleading with her son to stay out of the rackets. There's also no Mr. Big, Dr. No or Don Corleone stroking a house cat and intoning gritty or pearly aphorisms. The movie stays at street level, showing the lower- and middle-rung employees enmeshed in a system they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gomorrah: Scarface for Real | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...apologized, said we were trapped, bowed our heads. Not five minutes after we got ensnared in the portable toilets pen, did we hear a woman’s voice pierce the general hubbub of the crowd, screaming, “Makay! Makay! Has anyone seen my baby? Answer your mama, Makay!” Next to me, pushing through the crowd, a red-lipsticked brown face emerged, streaming with tears, eyes panicked, sound coming from her in short gasps, “Makay! Makay! Makay! Where are you? Your mama’s calling!” She pushed...

Author: By Sanders I. Bernstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Portable-Toilets: The Inauguration Holy Grail | 2/11/2009 | See Source »

...Gloss’ by Lil’ Mama Green may be the new Crimson, but sparkly lip gloss is the new milkshake. 8. ‘Girlfriend’ by Avril Lavigne (Eight Language Version) Wo bu xi huan ni de nu peng you! 7. ‘Womanizer’ by Britney Spears Catchy tune, but we can’t seem to remember the lyrics... 6. ‘Get Down’ by B4-4 Frosted tips are totally coming back. 5. ‘Stripper Friends’ by Tila Tequila Do stripper friends...

Author: By Mariah A. Bush and Alan C. Chiu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Design and Photo's Top Nine Songs to Photoshop To | 12/12/2008 | See Source »

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