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...tunnel: the bocca d'inferno of old Christian art." So Hughes begins his new memoir, Things I Didn't Know, quite literally with a bang. The accident took place in 1999 on a deserted road in Western Australia, where the eminent art critic, author and television personality (The Shock of the New, Goya) was making a TV series on his native country. Thanks to a passing Aborigine named Joe Fishhook, Hughes survived the crash. So did the three men in the car with which he collided head-on. Because it appeared that Hughes may have strayed over the center line...
...pain not felt by most Harvardians who study abroad over the summer. Many of them spend time in a foreign land by building automated sewage systems out of discarded lead pipes, living in burlap huts, and showering with a hollow gourd. These poor souls inevitably suffer from severe culture shock when they re-enter the United States. They find it materialistic and complain about the sheer surplus of caramel macchiatos. This is not what happened to me when I returned from Bella Italia. If I did experience any culture shock, it was in the jarring lack...
...Late Registration,” Kanye West gets overshadowed twice. Once by Jay-Z on “Diamonds from Sierra Leone,” which is no surprise—getting bested by Hova on your own album is becoming a time-honored tradition. The real shock comes less then ten minutes into the album, when West’s unheralded guest and fellow Chicagoan Lupe Fiasco puts Louis Vuitton’s top spokesman to shame. Fiasco’s not really a power hitter; he’s more about finesse. On “Touch...
...Polytechnic's Department of Food Engineering, where they knocked on several doors before finally being directed to the lab where Xavier Martínez, Purificación García and Neus Sanjuan had been working for years on vacuum cooking. At first, there was a bit of culture shock as chefs and scientists tried to adapt to each others' way of thinking. "We spent the first month just trying to agree on vocabulary," says Torres. "Were we 'cooking in a vacuum' or 'vacuum cooking'?" Within months, however, they had completed the first prototype, an ungainly contraption whose three pieces...
...Adding to the shock in India, home to the world's third-largest Muslim population (approximately 150 million), is that some of the clerics apparently caught in the sting operation teach at important institutions - one belongs to India's most famous Islamic seminary, the Darul Uloom at Deoband. At least two of the clerics have been suspended from their posts, but that hasn't satisfied everyone. Students at one madrassa in north India denounced the clerics, and in the city of Meerut, where a mufti, or cleric, had been caught on camera, the congregation at one mosque refused to offer...