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Harris had a point. But then again, how often do you see the über-precise Carlos D discard his bass mid-song to play a rough saxophone riff or nimbly manipulate a set of keyboard loops with his feet? Menomena has always been a more claustrophobic, oddball project—and, as they showed last week, it’s had a most liberating effect on their music...
...Mid-show, the guitarists began to strum their old classic, “NYC.” The slow fusion of deep guitar chords and light keyboard tones melted into mellow vocals and suddenly the New York City nightlife manifested itself in the conservative Boston venue—two large disco balls appeared in the back of the stage, turning the entire theater into a tranquil disco club...
...single best work, a painting, hangs at the Samson Projects. Entitled “A Blaze of Glory, Flame Red Double Knit,” it depicts, on a shiny canvas, two women in red, their bodies cropped from mid-thigh to collarbone. The detail is luminous, close to photographic; each wrinkle in the outfits is executed with finesse, while the bodies of the women are mysterious and elegant. It calls into question the status of the faceless females without making the statement on feminine identity and body image too obvious...
...looking for a man, mid-30s or older, who likes sexually avaricious younger women...I’m a Harvard grad student and want a man who could challenge me intellectually...I am areligious, I smoke upon occasion, and I watched too much porn as a young girl...
...1990s, when Japan's economy took a fall from which it has yet to recover, the country has been gripped by a paralyzing identity crisis. This is a recurrent affliction; at moments of abrupt discontinuity with the past, such as the opening of Japan to the West in the mid-19th century and the disastrous end of the Pacific War, troubling questions reframe themselves: What is the source and nature of our uniqueness, and what must we do to thrive in the world without losing a sense of our authentic selves? The continuing absence of satisfactory answers has brought...