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...technologies set off waves of nutty horror films that took our collective fears and misplaced anxieties and made them mythic —and in so doing exposed a peculiar kind of American cultural psychosis. Obsessed with life, obsessed with death, and so horribly afraid of encroachments upon either realm, we would lash out or ostracize those that could infect us with cultural change. For now, though, we’ll have to deal with “Saw II.”—Staff writer Clint J. Froehlich can be ed at froehlic@fas.harvard.edu...
...realm of entertainment was a natural choice. “I had been in the [Hasty Pudding] shows, and that gave me a kind of interest in that world as something I really, really enjoyed,” Fingleton says...
...would seem that the once quasi-justifiable living-wage campaign has descended into the realm of the absurd...
...singular strength of the book is that Isherwood brings this happy mix of earnestness and mischief to the realm where it is most essential and most rare: the search for God. When he determined to dedicate himself to the Swami, he made it plausible by remembering that he "hated anything which sounded like 'religion'" and "had always regarded Vedanta philosophy, or yoga, as the ultimate in mystery-mongering nonsense." Here is the perfect skeptic's guide to faith, in which even the most vaporous of concepts is rendered with a brilliant everyday lucidity ("The Ego...is like...
...meeting read Pitchfork daily, adapted it to their needs, and in doing so crafted a musical “personality” though a process as efficient as a Model T assembly line. Some read further than others, wading through the blandly melodic and arriving in the safe realm of the avant-garde (read: unlistenable...