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Like most of her tenured peers in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), Wisse is still fixated by the ideological warfare of the 1960s. The pro-sex, pro-drugs, pro-Rock N’ Roll activists are “liberals,” and the Lacoste-popping, pro-establishment types are “conservatives.” And, of course, no one bridges these heavily polarized political camps...
...make it into the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), where the saturated colors of two new exhibitions testify to the long, eastward journey their artworks made from warmer and brighter climates.“David Hockney Portraits” and “Light My Fire: Rock Posters from the Summer of Love” both opened at the MFA in February.David Hockney is a British artist who has been living in Los Angeles since 1978—341 miles and a decade away from equally Californian graphic artists in Haight-Ashbury, who invented the psychedelic poster aesthetic for then...
...recent years, the Academy Awards broadcast has come under fire for being overlong and dull. Last year, the show’s producers trimmed its runtime by a half hour and tapped outspoken comedian Chris Rock to give the program some much needed “edge.” To the delight of viewers—and the horror of many stars—Rock used the hosting gig to skewer Hollywood egos and lampoon the self-importance of the entertainment industry. But his barbs may have been a little too incisive—he was not invited back...
...hour and a half after school groups are herded out of the Boston Museum of Science, a more idiosyncratic crowd files in for trippy laser lights and classic rock. At 10:30 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, the museum’s Hayden Planetarium hosts “Laser Pink Floyd: The Dark Side of the Moon.” In this planetarium, stars are heard instead of seen. Laser Floyd gets off to a slow start, when images of cash registers—probably borrowed from clip art circa 1994—spin around the planetarium dome...
...instant friends, signing a “Never Be Ordinary” pact, and thus ensuring from the start that the book will never be boring. They go back each summer to the Vineyard, where Caitlin strings Vix along. Caitlin is manipulative, but ultimately she needs Vix as a rock to ground her own manic moods. For Vix, Caitlin is like a drug; dangerous yet incredibly tempting, one snort and Vix is hooked yet again...