Word: tastee
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The question was in ghoulish taste, but it proved revealing. Moderator Bernard Shaw of CNN began the final presidential debate by demanding that Michael Dukakis reconcile his opposition to capital punishment with a macabre scenario in which his wife Kitty was raped and killed. Such a hypothesis justified almost any...
It's typical of Sontag that she would turn a personal preoccupation into an occasion for larger reflections. Her collected work is a map of her consuming passions: the French writer Roland Barthes, the German critic Walter Benjamin, the filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard. (In her spare time, she has directed...
By taking seriously a taste that valued aesthetics over morality, Sontag offended American critics trained to sort through works of art for their moral messages. So be it -- they were the ones she had in mind when, in another famous essay, she declared herself "against interpretation." In her view, interpretation...
Weekend furloughs remind inmates of what life is like "on the outside," providing a powerful incentive for good behavior behind bars. Furloughs give inmates a taste of freedom and make them anxious for release. Thus, they behave well in hope of parole, or at least another furlough. More importantly, furloughs...
The Harvard men's water polo team will gets it first taste of action as the "ones to beat" this weekend when the Crimson hosts a round-robin New England League Tournament at Blodgett Pool.