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...fearsome must the headlines be about tomorrow before people change their ways today?" Gibbs asked. Psychologically speaking, people need to worry more about the present to change. Our brains are hardwired to respond to immediate dangers, not ones that are years or decades away. And a term like global warming is too benign, especially for those like me who live in a cold climate and might welcome an increase of a few degrees. Perhaps we should use the term global boiling, like the proverbial experiment in which a frog stays in a gradually warming pot of water and eventually dies...
...souls can’t sit still, and so the band never encounters their own boundaries because such boundaries don’t exist. But “Strawberry Jam” may be the only Animal Collective album fully possessed by a need to exist completely in the present. The album’s sessions reportedly involved the band piling into a car in Tucson and driving into the desert, recording live and eschewing overdubbing, emerging with something organic, fresh, and utterly mercurial. Take opener “Peacebone,” which starts with what sounds like...
...result is a neatly framed artistic interaction between the old and new: The elegant instruments of Chinese classical antiquity stand dwarfed by urbanity, but at the same time, these ancient telescopes still stand watch over Beijing, no matter how much the city has changed. A similar artistic quality was present in the small medical college where I worked, Xiehe Medical College. The university and attached hospital were primarily composed of flat concrete structures, as dismal and dingy on the inside as their exteriors.But the oldest parts of the hospital were designed to replicate a royal palace that had once stood...
...borrowed from the aforementioned friend, no less—another try. I got about two chapters in before realizing that, no matter how much I tried, it just wasn’t for me. Maybe it was too contrived, or maybe it lacked a certain diversity of thought present in “The Assistant.” Whatever it was, though, I realized that, like the fortunes of Morris Bober, some things never change...
...John C. Reilly giving tips on the best vegetables to eat. And sometimes there’s a thrilling rock opera about a bald man wanting to have sex with his 300-pound secretary. Tim and Eric are basically time travelers, bringing the comedy of the future to the present day. Give it a shot. The worst thing that could happen is a brain aneurysm.PUBLIC SCORN INDEX: 12%“Human Giant” (MTV)Thursdays, 10:30 p.m.Season Two Premiere: TBDThis one came out of nowhere! With virtually no fanfare or buildup, three wunderkinder escaped from the purgatory...