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Alanis Morissette loves the vocabulary of pop psychology. Or, to steal a phrase from You Owe Me Nothing in Return, a track on her upcoming album, Under Rug Swept (Maverick), she gives it "countless amounts of outright acceptance...
...these suggestions, if implemented, would amount to little more than superficial window-dressing; they are hopelessly myopic, and do not cut to the heart of the issue. At best, the above solutions would temporarily check grade inflation, would sweep the proverbial mess under the rug, would cover the thick cracks in the house that is Harvard with merely a thin layer of paint...
...didn't suspect. In the future everyone will all know the script I'm trying not to follow. My performance, to be convincing, will have to be better than normal. If you're normal, or people think you are, you can clear your throat or trip on a rug or complain of a headache without raising alarms or eyebrows. When people know it is partly performance...
...most ordinary of jumping-off points. For example, the Indian basket demonstrates new contact between English settlers and Algonkians in what is now Providence, R.I. and the subsequent blending of the cultures’ fabrics. Hannah Barnard’s cupboard and Betty Foot’s bed rug indicate the importance that was placed on maintaining gentility even on the new American frontier...
...good old days, and hope that the House of Funk will live up to the Pad parties of yore. Spiegelman searches for Funk-specific terminology: I hesitate to even call them parties, he says, There is just much less talking involved. Its about being sprawled out on a shag rug, being exposed to Scammons music (Scammon maintains an impressive library of funk CDs) as a band. I think a lot of the stuff we play is due to the shared experience there in the wee hours of the night. There is this spontaneous thing that other guests can think...