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...time wandering through the three large galleries that make up this exhibit. The audio tour is excellent; narrated by James Taylor and set up CD-style, it lets you go through the show at your own pace. When you want to know about one of the instruments, you simply punch the number on its glass case into your player to hear an explanation about it or music that was recorded with it. The music is essential to the show's success, because although the guitars' shapes are beautiful, most of their special appeal lies in their role as instruments...

Author: By Cecile Zwiebach, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Dangerous Curves: Art of the Guitar at the MFA | 12/8/2000 | See Source »

...nothing but living space, had nothing in common but our room. All that changed this past month, with the season premiere of "The Simpsons." At 8 p.m. we all squeezed onto our futon and simultaneously tried to adjust the reception. We laughed together, and repeated to one another the punch lines we missed: "Do you want things done right, or do you want them done fast...

Author: By Judd B. Kessler, | Title: EDITORIAL NOTEBOOK: Everybody Can Eat My Shorts Together | 12/6/2000 | See Source »

Sasso passed around a handful of ballot cards--"not from Florida," he assured. Using a paper clip--the same he said was sent in the mail to absentee voters using punch cards--he urged his audience to vote. "Look at them, hold them up," he said, running his finger along the crisp side. "Do you see light...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sasso Lectures KSG Class on Florida Ballots | 12/6/2000 | See Source »

...student tried to punch a hole--twice--partially detaching the centerpiece. Two sides flapped like a screen door. Should the vote count...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sasso Lectures KSG Class on Florida Ballots | 12/6/2000 | See Source »

...with this election. All of a sudden Florida is a kingdom of hallucinations, an elaborate legal speculation on what the voter's intention was - the world's greatest power prize hanging on a punch-out confetti of chads and the interpretation of dimples. Now you see it (the presidency), now you don't. Magicians with law degrees pull votes out of hats, or double-bottomed suitcases. Ballots flutter in and out of the process like butterflies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lackluster Search for Truth | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

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