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Harvard, wired to the max, is faced with a pressing decision upon every visit to RadioShack. In a battle for space, the Harvard-provided two-outlets-per-room can't accommodate our--very essential--electronic pencil sharpeners, desk lamps, alarm clocks, stereos, computers and automated toothbrushes. But just how trustworthy is the electric flow in our classic abodes? Will our prized possessions...
...know when they may put your homework up for auction. Robert Hunter, the high school art teacher of deceased Nirvana singer and enduring cult figure KURT COBAIN, recently consigned some of the musician's work to Christie's auction house for an upcoming sale. Among the items, a signed pencil and watercolor depiction of Michael Jackson and a graphite on paper rendering of then-President Ronald Reagan, below. The latter earned high marks from Hunter ("Kurt, your caricatures are outstanding. 10/10, A"). Christie's appraisers, apparently, favored the Jackson, assigning it a pre-sale estimate...
...sure whatever species she's from, she's a very attractive member of that species. But as a model of anything important? Thanks, I'll take Katha Pollitt. Sure, Matt Damon is cute, like the way your fourth grade class gerbil was cute, even after it ate pencil shavings and died. You proclaim Vincent Gallo "the most brilliant man ever." His photo-essay reads, and I quote, "And my friend Val Kilmer was dating Cher. Then Cher was my friend, too. I was friends with Cher. I was friends with Val and Cher." Nuanced! Jade Jagger is described as "talented...
Still, anyone with a pencil and a napkin can calculate that a lot more money has poured out of DreamWorks than has flowed in. It's what you'd expect with a start-up, but as long as that's so, speculation will continue as to whether the company can exist in its present configuration. An insider at DreamWorks says change seems to be in the air. "At this point, the shoe hasn't dropped," the executive says, "but there is a shoe...
...different from self-knowledge. He decides, for instance, that he must keep a record of his departure so that he can understand it. "I want an absolute honesty that doesn't merely involve saying how awful one is," he explains. "How do I like to write? With a soft pencil and a hard dick--not the other way around." One wonders why Susan didn't leave first...