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...music I learned in Africa is insidiously a part of me,” he said. Now back from his break, Fleck is currently touring with jazz pianist Chick Corea, one of his main inspirations. He shared other sources of his early inspiration, including the theme song for “The Beverly Hillbillies.” Fleck first heard the banjo at the age of four while watching reruns of the popular show at his grandparents’ home in Queens. The theme song features the banjo playing of Earl Scrubs. Fleck claims to have been immediately struck...
...address social issues at Harvard. Every semester the Women’s Center stages an exhibition organized around a certain topic. The subject this spring—the relationship between Harvard and body issues—stems from last fall’s “Autobiography” theme. Both the exhibition and its title, “More Than Skin Deep,” are intended to demonstrate the all-encompassing nature of body issues. “Body image is not just restricted to the way you look, your weight, height, and skin color...
...that you can do battle with forever, but it’ll never stop. Someone once said that dust was like a marker of time. The accumulation of dust, I think, is a memento mori, a reminder of decay.”The passage of time is a resounding theme in Davey’s work that manifests itself not only in each individual photograph—be it through the time it takes to amass a record collection, or to consume a bottle of liquor—but also in “Long Life Cool White?...
...there: the occasional over-the-top racial statements by Obama's pastor Jeremiah Wright; the fact that Obama has been described as "friendly" with 1960s dilettante-terrorist William Ayers. It seemed clear on primary night that Obama was aware of this potential problem, as patriotism replaced hope as a theme of his concession speech. He echoed John McCain in citing Abraham Lincoln, and called America "the last best hope on Earth." That was the only "hope" he mentioned - a fascinating calibration...
...same time, the Clinton campaign stepped up its attacks on the media, insisting that Obama has been receiving kid-glove treatment. The theme sank into the broad public consciousness when Saturday Night Live returned from the writers' strike to make a recurring theme of the fawning press. Perhaps eager to prove that they can be equally tough on Obama, journalists filled that week with stories about Obama's Canada problem and his ties to an indicted Chicago real estate developer, Tony Rezko...