Word: shade
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...buck, for a buck/If you’re looking for someone to pull you out of that ditch you’re out of luck, you’re out of luck.” Simultaneously a scathing indictment of recruiting season, an explication of the crimson shade of misery which we face each January, and a really badass song, Waits’ little ditty is pretty simple and pretty perfect. Other Required Listening: Aerosmith’s “Shame Shame Shame,” Flaming Lips’ “Feeling Yourself Disintegrate...
...defense to find his groove. Lacking the interior height to play Harvard senior center Brian Cusworth straight up—the tallest player in the Blackbirds’ rotation is 6’7—LIU committed its defensive resources to plugging the middle, routinely getting guards to shade towards the interior and give help when the ball got deep. That left the outside open, and not even a shift from 2-3 zone to man-to-man defense when Goffredo was in the game, a sign of respect for the Crimson’s senior marksman, prevented...
...anti-Semite. But it does require that you ask just what you do and don't identify with in it. Apocalypto shows a rage against senseless war and bloodlust, but it also seems to revel in them, and it raises the question of when purity of belief can shade into intolerance. Borat is the funniest movie of the year, but it's reasonable to ask whether our culture has become so anti-p.c. that a racist comic can defend his rant, as Richards did, as "go[ing] into character...
...burlesque, but a decidedly dark trend is emerging in makeup colors--just in time for the holidays. Lancme calls its new sculpting mascara Fatale, and MAC cosmetics is promoting its Nocturnelle collection on burlesque performer Dita Von Teese. So don't be surprised when you see that the shade of the bottle of Tom Ford's new fragrance, Black Orchid, is, well, black...
...Visitors are then asked to wear a tan wireless viewing device that changes the view to what one of the three other participants is looking at, making the perception of the exhibition gallery into a shared reality. Moving along, the gallery walls are painted a dull shade of white, bare except for the numbers one-to-13 differentiating the panels. This is the world of Norweigan artist Sissel Tolaas, recently profiled in The New York Times. Tolaas experiments with a sense that is often forgotten in the art world—that of smell. To produce...