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...wind up my last year at Harvard, I find myself vaguely nonplussed. Have four years of nonsensical response papers and vacuous political conversations changed my essence, my marrow? I have changed boyfriends several times, that is true, but that has seemed more a function of whim than personal evolution. A cute man is increasing hard to find. When I look back on my life before Harvard, I find I was pretty much the same person, except that I did not know what country fried steak was and I did not have a newspaper column in which I lambasted other people?...
...start as a dancer on Broadway and then in Hollywood. One of her only two film credits is as an unnamed dancer alongside Charlton Heston in “The Ten Commandments.” Curiously, Heston passed away on the same day as Burton, and the two seem kindred spirits. In later life, while one championed the National Rifle Association after a wave of school-shootings, the other rifled through new headshots just days after the funeral of one of her numerous finds.—Columnist Andrew F. Nunnelly can be reached at nunnelly@fas.harvard.edu...
...your average rocking-chair grandma knitting. Architecture in Helsinki is here to prove that they can make any nerdy pastime look downright cool. With a confident indie pop sound in which The Pixies meet OK Go, they can pretty much pull off whatever they want. And what they seem to want now is to chronicle the odyssey of two coconuts through an embroidered world. But don’t be dissuaded by this cross-stitching concept. The music video still comes complete with lions, flamingos, hot-air balloons, and hula-hooping monkeys. Even if they’re only composed...
...Docx, justly reliant on his tremendous skill for description, occasionally lets himself become a little lazy in crafting the characters he describes, some of whom retain the strange, menacing darkness that would fit better in a Dan Brown novel. Selfish, conniving, and sometimes senselessly cruel, these characters seem inappropriately one-sided alongside the other rich characters who populate the novel. Still, what would be cardboard cut-outs in another author’s hands seem almost real in Docx’s. “Be as charming as champagne,” one solely conniving character thinks to himself...
...Battlestar” apart from other series. As people, we consume entertainment not just out of boredom or a need to keep up with the Joneses, but because of a love of characters. We’re fascinated by other people, and the more real they seem, the better. We empathize with Holden Caulfield, Elizabeth Bennet, and Jay Gatsby; we agonize over their fictional decisions with a rigor comparable to the way we analyze our own. “Battlestar” has amazing characters, so numerous and well-developed that I could spend an entire extra article telling...