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...characters in the play-within-the-play are siblings who have rarely left their own house since witnessing their parents’ murder-suicide. In denial for decades, they have confined themselves to a dilapidated estate in New Bethesda, Md. where “the sunflowers have overgrown the exterior...
...youthful, innocent, virgin school kids, the ones that smile at you as you pass bus stops all over this country. What has Eminem done for them? He’s turned them into a bunch of gun-toting, pot-smoking, crack-snacking lunatics. Frankly, a man (or an overgrown adolescent) who can’t win over his mother’s love definitely doesn’t deserve my support. This guy needs a bit of Ritalin and a whole bunch of Prozac, not another glowing review from some crackpot critic who can’t tell the difference...
...29th Street on a September Evening (2000), it seems as though Monet painted a field of flowers beneath a milky skyline and gritty buildings. The images, which come from Sternfeld’s book Walking the High Line, chronicle a journey past Gap billboards and over abandoned railways strangely overgrown with plants and flowers. Sternfeld teaches “Landscape Photography” this semester...
...this lends support to an evolutionary scheme that has been gaining scientific support. Instead of a tree, with a main trunk and a few side branches, hominid evolution is now viewed more as an overgrown bush, lush at every point with multiple competing species. The evidence certainly seems to point that way. Over the past couple of decades, anthropologists have been finding more and more hominid species dating all the way from hundreds of thousands to millions of years ago, many of them overlapping in time. During most of our ancestors' history, it appears, multiple species of humanlike creatures walked...
...their own. Each of the three narrators of Fragrant Harbour has vivid memories of first seeing Hong Kong. Dawn in her business-class Cathay Pacific seat, enduring the white-knuckle approach to Kai Tak Airport; Tom hanging from the rail of his steam liner, drinking in the "junks like overgrown children's toys"; Matthew, the refugee, who crawled into Hong Kong through weeds and barbed wire. Those first impressions inform the life of their relationship with this fluid city...