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...your playlist?” As he recites the amazing number of artists stored on his tiny digital media player (this classic love story is also a commercial), time revs forward through their courtship, wedding, children’s birthdays, and finally settles on the two of them with silver hair and bifocals.On the most superficial level, the spot simply advertises the tremendous storage capacity of Verizon’s latest phone. But what it’s really appealing to is one of our deepest, darkest, most neurotic obsessions: the playlist. “What?...
...boss, one last try: I’m getting good with Photoshop after that Iraq stuff. We could maybe throw together a birth certificate that says Bill Ayers fathered John McCain’s black baby with Michelle Obama. How’s that for a silver bullet?” [Looks at Dick, who narrows his eyes vaguely.] “Um, yeah. You got my green light on that one, boy genius. Let me know how it turns out; I’ll be in my room playing Club Penguin.” James M. Larkin...
Host Paul S. Wylie ’90, the 1992 Olympic Silver Medalist who has participated in the event for 24 years, calls it “a uniquely wonderful tradition...
Football, sanity, and sex are the three biggest players on the field in Matthew Quick’s “The Silver Linings Playbook.” Quick tells his tale from the perspective of Pat Peoples, a 34-year-old man who has just been released from a mental institution—or “the bad place,” as he calls it. Written in the style of an extended, journal-like letter to his ex-wife, Pat documents his obsession with her, his slow recovery from mental illness, and the importance of the Philadelphia...
...American fencing in Beijing also saw a silver medal in the women’s team foil event—a win that came as a complete surprise to most who follow fencing. Then again, even Harvard students unfamiliar with the sport might have been unsurprised at the win once learning that it belonged to Emily R. Cross ’08-’10, a member of the Harvard fencing team who has long proven her ability to perform under stressful conditions...