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...loads of modern movement: the mock swordplay and bullfight maneuvers Edward engages in with the ladies; the expertly clumsy seduction that Joyce tries on Edward, with the help of a beanbag chair that drops 30 feet from the flies to the stage floor. The show has more smart laughs than most Broadway musical comedies...
...they never died out. If it hadn't been for all that weaving and sewing, for instance, the embroidered work of Egyptian artist Ghada Amer would be hard to imagine--to say nothing of Mike Kelley's stuffed-animal art. That's the point of the other big, smart new show "Global Feminisms" at the Brooklyn Museum. Organized by Maura Reilly and art historian Linda Nochlin, it concentrates on art made since 1990 and demonstrates that the concerns of the '70s have spread around the world. Jenny Saville's big nudes, for instance, with their masses of battered flesh...
...saddest insult in the book is the one levied towards the smart kid, and especially at a place like Harvard, it’s not going to make anyone feel bad. Yeah, we’re smart. Smart is the new cool. Making fun of the smart kid is something that only one person ever does: the dumb...
...parallel pursuit of the same goal: truth.Polkinghorne wisely limits the scope of his book, making it both more concrete and more readable. He does not attempt to address all of the main Western religions, as Sam Harris does, and thereby avoids inaccuracies or sweeping generalizations.Polkinghorne also makes a smart move in comparing theology with physics, not biology. Dawkins frequently relies on evolutionary biology when making his case for the impracticability of religion. Polkinghorne does not try to enter into the creationism vs. intelligent design vs. evolution debate, focusing only on the attempts of both physics and theology to grapple with...
...fact is al-Qaeda is too smart to put all of its eggs in one basket. It has not and does not have a field commander, the role KSM has arrogated. It works on the basis of "weak links," mounting terrorist operations by bringing in people on an ad hoc basis, and immediately disbanding the group afterwards...