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...aesthetic question, Is pro wrestling fun to watch? The answer is: Not really. It can evince the rude, flimflam energy of its carnival origins, but as a form of pulp culture, wrestling has far less imagination than a decent horror movie or comic book. If you're desperate for mock terror on Monday nights, stick with Buffy the Vampire Slayer...
...final flattener, making all of us the creator and the created. With every advance in technology, art and entertainment--its cuter, more popular sister--change in radical, unpredictable ways. And at each turn they become more democratic, more accessible. The printing press starts with Bibles and ends up with pulp fiction. Radio popularizes rock 'n' roll. TV spawns the sitcom. Now consider the possibilities that will open up as the computer meets the Net--not the network of today, with piddly, slow connections that are mainly good for relaying e-mail. But the Net of a hundred years from...
...typical series in Famous Fantastic Mysteries was titled Crimes of the Year 2000. The crimes were not especially novel, but some of the crime-fighting devices were, for the time: tiny recorders strapped to the wrist, heli-pursuit cars, bloodhound machines that identified a perpetrator's smell. The pulp view of the millennium was dominated by gadgetry. If there was a philosophical outlook, it was patriotic and upbeat in the sense that the good guys always...
...color of the Yard is now currently bordering on blue. The administration has not gone crazy, of course. Commencement is coming up in June, and the Yard would be even uglier than it is now if thousands of students, alumni and parents trampled the Yard into a muddy pulp. The overall artistic effects of the grassy Commencement Yard greatly outweigh the currently blue Yard. With the return of Blue is the return of that smell, the smell of that fertilizer which embodies for so many of us springtime and summer at Harvard. (You know the cool, acidic smell--the blue...
Levi says that for some years he believed "the real pulp" of Buddhist religious in America were the more Western versions "with their new take on religion." The thought of traditional meditation did not occur to him until he took a class on Buddhism...