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...band’s two incarnations is never clearer than on the back-to-back versions of “Remember When,” coyly labeled “(Side A)” and “(Side B)”: the former is a slow, quasi-psychedelic wash, while the latter is the echo of the old guard—a blistering, electroshock guitar blast virtually untouched by Danger Mouse. Quite frankly, it’s all the better for being left alone.But that’s the exchange “Attack & Release?...
...internet slang for what happens when, for better or for worse, an artist gives the people exactly what they want. Philip Pullman's brief, exquisite novel ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE NORTH (Knopf; 104 pages) is fan service at its best. North is set in the same quasi-Victorian alternative universe as Pullman's Golden Compass, where every human is accompanied by a talking-animal soul mate called a daemon. It's a prequel, the story of how a young and not-yet-grizzled Lee Scoresby, gunslinging aeronaut extraordinaire, and his rabbit daemon, Hester, first met up with armored...
Hampered by a lack of money and difficulties in attaining a permit, the church has made slow attempts at rebuilding, resulting in a “quasi-structure,” according to trip co-leader Jessica C. Frisina...
...college. I am not suggesting that Harvard should be managed completely by students’ desires and town halls. But on the spectrum of including students versus excluding us, respecting us versus patronizing us, University Hall is a long ways away from treating students like the reasonable, non-violent quasi-adults that...
...silver screen. But the darker side of pregnancy has yet to be discussed. In the recent hit comedy “Knocked-Up,” one character takes baby steps towards addressing this “issue,” going so far as to say the quasi-taboo word “shma-shmor-shmin.” In an effort to open up the abortion debate, at least on campus if not in the hills, Harvard Students for Choice hosted a panel last Friday entitled “Hollywood’s Pregnant Pause...