Word: rags
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...long-anticipated time has come. Harvard’s very own porn rag, Diamond Magazine, has released its second—well first “official”—issue, a sample of which you can download for your reading pleasure at its Web site: www.diamond-mag.com...
...rag-tag crew of construction workers turned musicians enters and immediately begins to serenade you with the sound of their brooms. They begin to hit everything they can get their hands on—and soon enough you start to do the same. By the time the show is over, the contagious energy will likely have inspired you to find your own percussion instruments—from your program to your cell phone to your Charlie card and the person sitting next to you. It’s quite intoxicating and liberating. Anger, excitement, giddiness—now?...
...other hand, Jerry Oppenheimer's Madoff with the Money (Wiley) reflects its tabloid title. Told with faux breathlessness, it reads at times like a quickly compiled clip job. On occasion, he uses the annoying supermarket-rag technique of quoting "Madoff insiders" for banal details, such as that Madoff liked expensive suits, in order to raise the level of suspense. But Oppenheimer can be good at the juicy quote too. One victim told him, "What were we going to do--call up Bernie and tell him, 'God, I'm making too much money. What's going on?'" Or the small detail...
...relations in his work would be a dark comedy, performed in disguise and in party colors, with the Grim Reaper making regular entrances to rattle his bones in your face. It's a spook show too tawdry to be frightening, one that takes place in threadbare rooms and in rag-barrel costumes, but that's the point. In Ensor the dramas of existence are mostly shabby ones. In Masks Mocking Death, even death is just another lowlife, a target of scorn - though he looks as if he knows he's going to get the last laugh...
...Read "Rag and Bone: In Search of the Holy Dead...