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Before he arrived in Cambridge for a year-long stint as a visiting lecturer in Harvard’s government department, William Kristol compiled a 534-page anthology of reprinted articles that initially appeared in his Washington-based conservative magazine, The Weekly Standard. The resulting collection, “The Weekly Standard, A Reader: 1995-2005,” is filled with writing that is often laugh-out-loud funny and reliably thought-provoking...
...spent two years actively trying to convince people not to do these things,” says Langford. “And then to come to an environment where the moral standard seems to be hooking up, and drinking is everywhere...it’s a little hard to get back into that...
Finally, we regretfully must comment on the woeful showing of one Fidelity Investments. The company’s pen is a standard Bic, with the only customization being a green cap and Fidelity’s name and logo on the side. Fidelity, if you want to recruit us, don’t give us the kind of pen we steal from Holiday Inn. You’re an investment firm. How good can you being at making money when your pen is a cheap piece of crapsmanship? You’ll face our wrath for eternity. (Unless you give...
...Wallace and Gromit shorts were intimate affairs: the man, the dog and one or two other characters. Were-Rabbit creates a panorama of rural England: dozens of humans with the standard Nick Park facial expression (dazed) and eccentricities (too much mouth and not enough teeth). Aardman's feature films are sponsored by the Hollywood studio DreamWorks, but their tone and humor are totally, defiantly, blitheringly English, in a manner reminiscent of the classic Ealing comedies. Were-Rabbit is admirably old-fashioned in another way: while the rest of the animation world has gone to computer-generated (CG) features...
They closed the set out with an old standard from Hopeland, “Untitled #9—Popplagio (Pop Song).” It begins with a sweet, rolling guitar strain, but eventually collapses into cacophonous entropy. I’m not a big fan of the song, but it reminded me of the problem about the womb—eventually, the placenta breaks, and you’re out on your own. Horrifying...