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...where Very Bad Things shows itself to be neither "dark" nor "comedy." Somehow Peter Berg, the director, has decided that because the severing of an ear can be a scene at once terrifying and hilarious in Reservoir Dogs, then any scene of dismemberment is terrifying and hilarious. Dismemberment, per se, is neither, as Very Bad Things shows us again and again. This movie is somehow under the impression that dark comedy is the easiest of genres, one part jokes to five parts gore, when what makes it so fascinating is that it is so difficult...
...than the incomparable Billie Holiday, who paved the way for an entire generation of black women vocal stylists, including Carmen McRae, Ella Fitzgerald and R.-and-B. singers like Aretha Franklin. Although Holiday, who counted Bessie Smith among her most important musical influences, was not a blues singer per se, her music was deeply rooted in the blues tradition. As a jazz musician working primarily with the idiom of white popular song, Holiday used the blues tradition to inject suggestions of perspectives more complicated than those the lyrics themselves contained...
Some say Stewart's election represented only students' realization of the council's limited potential, not a rejection of progressive politics per se. But evidence indicates otherwise. Last fall's referendum on bringing grapes back to Harvard dining halls was a further embrace of the new, cold pragmatism that has apparently set in among us. Though the debate over unfair labor practices and union organization was muddled by accusations of misinformation, at the end of the day thousands of students voted with their stomachs--an indication of their reluctance to participate in conflicts and debates beyond the Harvard sphere...
Patterson: Nipple rhymes with people, she doesn't sign people per se, she was trying to do a "sounds like...
...dedicate our adult years to study, not a mechanism we can use to remain adolescents for four more. From this understanding stems a fuller sense of purpose and a feeling that we ought to approach our studies with a degree of responsibility. Studying is not a job per se, but in many senses, it is what we do instead of working, and it should not be taken lightly. The birth of my friend's son was a reminder that we are closer to parenthood than to childhood, and therefore should act accordingly...