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...debate about where Morrison ranks among the other American laureates will probably simmer for years. Does she belong with Steinbeck and Pearl S. Buck, authors whose earnest social concerns and novels now strike most critics and readers as passe? Some reviewers have found Morrison's novels overly deterministic, her characters pawns in the service of their creator's designs. Essayist Stanley Crouch says Morrison is "immensely talented. I just think she needs a new subject matter, the world she lives in, not this world of endless black victims." But for every pan, Morrison has received a surfeit of paeans...
Moby has always been profoundly out of sync with what's going on in the music world--and that's a good thing. The massively eclectic Everything is Wrong, moving easily from reggae chants to diva vocals to galloping jungle, came out when everyone was looking for Pearl Jam derivatives. Animal Rights, Moby's follow up, disappointed newly techno-hungry critics by being an almost frightening marriage of ambient and punk. While releasing excellent remixes of Brian Eno, Jam and Spoon and Orbital, he's been sneered for remixing Ozzy Ozbourne, Soundgarden and Metallica. Moby plays on all levels...
...this curvaceous beauty in shimmering titanium that is both sexy and unmistakably elegant. (And talk about pounding swords into art galleries: four years ago, on the cheap, Gehry picked up loads of this pricey "strategic" metal when the Russians started dumping their stockpiles.) With this strange masterpiece, a Baroque pearl, modern architecture truly arrives at the status of poetry in motion...
Jeff Duritz, a Pearl Street resident and substance-abuse counselor at a Cambridge homeless shelter, has lived in Central Square for two years. He said he did not mind the presence of the four Starbucks stores in Harvard Square, but when a new Starbucks opened at the corner of Mass. Ave. and Prospect Street, he decided to take matters into his own hands...
...months and a day until you can see "The Longest Day" on TV (and don't miss it). But in the dead of winter, the misfortunes of war must move to warmer climes. Just ask Napoleon. And Sunday, somewhere amid the football, is Pearl Harbor...