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...decided to dress like Blair Waldorf from “Gossip Girl.” I wore white tights and gigantic turban headbands with tie-neck blouses. It was amazing. I went to the Widener reading room every day. I listened to Prince. I read Perez Hilton like a normal person. My thesis advisor then told me that I had a penchant for “windy philosophizing.” After that, I sort of went into a freefall. There were extreme highs and frightening lows. I started listening to Miley Cyrus, then habitually wore a leopard print nightie...
...Athenaeum if the viewer has never seen the rooms in their original form. To explore the Athenaeum beyond the first floor, one must have a membership, so visitors to the exhibition will not see most of the rooms that Kellner jumbles. If the pictures are meant to subvert our normal way of perceiving structures, this concept comes across more clearly on the photographer’s website. Under “Collections,” the Boston Athenaeum exhibition is presented piece by piece. First, a picture of the room is presented, then Kellner’s sketch...
...funn-ay Val-ahn-than,” he sings as his colleagues look on incredulously. This awkward moment—the kind in which only one party realizes that the interaction is bizarre and the other believes they are behaving in a completely normal fashion—is characteristic of the tender Israeli comedy “The Band’s Visit.” In this much-lauded film, the eight members of the Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra find themselves stranded in Israel when they take the wrong bus on their way to a performance...
...East London conference sponsored by the Hearing Voices Network (HVN), an organization that brings such people together to exchange personal stories and coping strategies. Drawing on research by Dutch psychiatrists indicating that up to one in 25 people hears voices, HVN seeks to recast the phenomenon as a normal experience, encouraging members to maintain a dialogue with their voices so they can live peacefully with and even appreciate their presence. Studies suggest that these auditory hallucinations emerge following traumas ranging from the death of a loved one to outright abuse, so HVN encourages members to address the phenomenon with these...
...Love Vision, a store in Ankawa that makes wedding videos, said about 80 percent of his clients were from Baghdad (which he left in 1995), and everyone had suffered some kind of tragedy. Indeed, half of his own family has been kidnapped or killed since 2003. "That's normal in Iraq," he said...