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...music tries to follow a similar course—the album even includes a song called “I Kept the Beach Boys.” Tullycraft is one of the best practitioners of twee, a musical genre that draws on the smooth boy-girl harmonies, catchy beats, innocent lyrics and the sheer musical simplicity of the ’50s and ’60s. Twee is, at its best, carefully crafted bubblegum pop with a slight alternative bent...
Panelists agreed the relationship between Harvard and Cambridge is reciprocal in nature, and urged students to do all they could to ensure that the University works to smooth relations...
...Nikon Coolpix 2500 ($379), due in stores next month, is the first camera I've tested that fills the bill. Indeed, it's the first Nikon camera to be engineered around the design, rather than the other way around. It's about the size and weight of a smooth-edged deck of cards, and its sleek blue-and-brushed-metal look really sets it apart from the pack. Call it the iPod of digital cameras, a comparison it deserves, not just for form and looks but also for its admirable ease...
...inspired by functional pieces made with walrus intestines. Based on this organic idea, she then incorporated animal parts—cow stomachs and hog intestines—into her work. Despite the gruesome sound of these materials, the resulting work is surprisingly elegant. The final surfaces appear smooth and supple, much like leather but not as artificial. As in her other work, von Rydingsvard evokes the organic, yet in this instance she uses literal organs rather than the usual cedar...
Kincaid read from her soon-to-be-published tale of Mr. Potter, a chauffeur in “a small island in the Caribbean.” Mr. Potter, nearing his death, rediscovers the “smooth everydayness” of life, of the traveling and travailing he has endured in the driver’s seat of his car. Here the prose is free-flowing, movingly lyrical; Kincaid’s rich voice, tinted with her Antiguan accent, carried the audience along with the words. But the story shifts from a third-person narrative of Mr. Potter...