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...rapidly discovered that Harvard theater was too staid and conventional for her experimental taste. “It was like Oklahoma! played forever, and I had no relationship to hoopskirts,” Nair says of the Harvard theater scene...
Updike didn’t only take on The Crimson, though. One 1953 rhyme he penned for the magazine begins, “Old Advocate, once you were famous and staid, / But Now, both obscene and sub-standard; / For thus you are called by printers appalled, / Who never should bother to read what they’re paid / To print: we say you are slandered...
...such eateries as Alain Ducasse at the Essex House in New York City and the French Laundry in Yountville, Calif. "In addition to being small and pretty, microgreens also have an intensity to them that mature herbs don't have," says chef Craig Koketsu, who recently invigorated the staid menu at New York City's venerable Manhattan Ocean Club with South American and Asian accents and lots of microgreens. He tops shrimp a la plancha, below, with micro chives, micro cilantro and micro mint, and accents a vibrant orecchiette in green garlic curry with micro Thai basil. "Microgreens...
...ways subtle and more blatant, the singers are also getting persona coaching. While they ultimately make their own decisions, they get advice on their song choices and performance to counter the judges' feedback, which often amounts to personal critiques: that DeGarmo is too girlish or London too staid. On one shopping trip for show-night clothes--the Idols get $450 a week for duds--stylist Miles Siggins encouraged London to "funk up" her look, saying that she sometimes mistook boring for classy. Conversely, the coaches discouraged Trias from selecting edgier music. As Trias puts it, "I had to learn...
...silicon up to be a dedicated game-playing monster. And Kutaragi courted outside game developers, so there was no lack of new strong software. The PlayStation 2 has bulled its way to a market share of around 70%. Kutaragi's flamboyant management style has raised some eyebrows within the staid halls of Sony. Legend has it he once offered to settle a dispute over the PlayStation's design with an arm-wrestling match. But he has earned his swagger. If video games are the storytelling medium of the coming century, Kutaragi is their Gutenberg. --By Lev Grossman