Word: mattering
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...watching the movies for another 10 years. On top of all that, vampires are immortal! I bet there are tons of mallrat goths whining about being way ahead of the curve, and I give props to them for still being scary. At the end of the day, though, no matter how historically accurate vampire depiction is or isn’t, I still think pop culture is in need of a silver bullet. I mean more unbridled, non-vampiric sex and violence. I mean a stake in the shape of a cross.—Staff writer Andrew F. Nunnelly...
...having it. In a moral environment split between the fast moving, forward-looking pharmaceutical industry and the ineffectually resistant humanities, Powers does not take sides, but considers the issue from both points of views, simultaneously. “Generosity” thereby succeeds in engaging its scientific subject matter honestly, and therefore that much more significantly. It is this respect for—but distance from—the science that allows Powers to arrive at the book’s core issue: Genetic engineering, for all the moral qualms that arise from it, gives humanity a chance to rewrite...
...political cartoonist is pervasive in his art. The pieces he creates have a distinctively dark humor about them and are often a metaphor for society, especially society in Latin America. This is made manifest in the two collections of photographs that comprise the pieces “Resting Matter (Mexico)” and “Resting Matter (Brazil).” These photographs depict bricks stacked outside houses for possible future renovations or extensions, a common custom in these two countries. The bricks seem to be the concrete representation of a family’s hopes and dreams...
...have, in relation to the arts, failed to foster a sense of urgency,” the Report said. “What is missing—what the university has yet sufficiently to recognize and to broadcast—is a sense that the arts matter, and not just for one’s private pleasure, but for one’s public person and career.” As the University actively works to incorporate the arts into the education of its students both in and out of the classroom, politically-minded artwork has been appearing more frequently...
Hatfield says he's waiting to see where the FBI investigation leads before drawing any conclusions, but he notes that circumstantial evidence suggests Sparkman may have been killed because of his tangential association with the Federal Government. "It doesn't matter if you're a lowly postal worker or a law-enforcement official or a prosecutor or judge," he said. "History shows us people exact revenge wherever they can get it when they're angry...