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...leap year, the Bell Lap has felt an overwhelming pressure to consume a month’s worth of food and beverages within the space of a foreshortened February. Needless to say, drinking every variety of Vitamin Water in a single day has pretty much been par for the course. But when it comes to the more important subject of snacking, everyone knows that there is no better feeling than feeding a machine some money and having it reward you with delicious processed foodstuffs. It avoids the irksome “human” element of buying things from...
...that Gondry innately understands the inventive possibilities accruing to matching music to film; song allows the possibility of a narrative that would be impossible with mere words and pictures.The original interpretation of “Jesus Walks” in “Block Party” is on par with his versions of The Rolling Stones’ cover of “Like a Rolling Stone,” which is filmed entirely from the perspective of a literal rolling stone, hisrecent Conan O’Brien is a floating head media meditation version of the White Stripes?...
...Crimson editor, for a literary genius, but we can often be too hasty in dismissing the mass paperback masters as bad storytellers and writers. We forget that successfully crafting a compelling plot—weaving together the twists and unleashing unexpected intersections—is a difficult task on par with understanding Faulkner...
...implication is that Howard, a striver par excellence, is there by merit. But it's also by cunning, luck and perseverance. And the wonders of incumbency, the best political steroid ever. Howard rules (much better than) O.K.! Among many good ones, the P.M. is the Liberal party's best strategist. More important, he is the government's most effective communicator in today's supercharged news cycle. Usually with minimal success, Parliament House's hired political hands try to craft lines that will reach ordinary people about the government's actions and inactions; Howard has the advantage of an open invitation...
Harvard’s social scene stereotypically gets pegged as sub-par. Facing a host of regulations that include a 2:00 a.m. shutdown, parties on campus rely heavily on small gatherings in student suites...