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...have the chance to see the man behind the joke. Bill Gates is scheduled to speak at Sanders Theatre on April...
...February, “The Ricky Gervais Show” premiered to little fanfare on HBO. It has only three characters, all of whom are animated—one is British comedian Ricky Gervais and another is his long-time collaborator Stephen Merchant. The third is a man named Karl Pilkington, whose brain is different from yours and mine...
Despite the show’s title, Gervais is hardly its focus. Instead, it is Karl, whom—despite his utter lack of stand-up, writing, or acting experience—Gervais has called “the funniest man alive in Britain today.” Over the last decade, Pilkington has become Gervais’s pet project, if not his pet. He is a fool, and also a genius...
People are conspicuously absent from Lehyt’s pieces. The box clearly represents the product of Lehyt’s own man-hours, but it is not the human effort that is emphasized. The piece is not about the laborers; it is about the concept of labor itself. The people are buried in the conceptual framework of Lehyt’s box. They are far from the fore...
...Marling’s repertoire. The song begins tamely enough: at first, only a soft, yet urgent acoustic guitar and quiet, staccato strings support Marling’s voice as she sings such characteristically poetic lyrics as “And his heart was full of fire at the man he had become / And his soul was seldom higher with the falsities of fun.” But the song gradually intensifies, boasting, at its climax, full choral accompaniment, deep, forceful piano chords, and the dramatic rumble of orchestral percussion. With a switch to a major key near...