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...have the convenience of searching them online. It's incredibly useful--fortunes have been made on ideas not one-tenth as useful. But Google does not even bother to promote its catalog service on its front page. To the Google gang, it's just a clever toy...
Temper tantrums are nothing new in kindergarten and first grade, but the behavior of a 6-year-old girl this fall at a school in Fort Worth, Texas, had even the most experienced staff members wanting to run for cover. Asked to put a toy away, the youngster began to scream. Told to calm down, she knocked over her desk and crawled under the teacher's desk, kicking it and dumping out the contents of the drawers. Then things really began to deteriorate. Still shrieking, the child stood up and began hurling books at her terrified classmates...
Self-described as an “indie-vaudeville conceptual art-rock pop band,” the Players toy with the might-have-been lives of people seen in vintage slide shows. Made up of Jason (Dad), Tina (Mom), and Rachel Trachtenburg (daughter), the Players play pop music with guitars and drums over the backdrop of slide shows acquired from estate sales, garage sales, thrift stores, and the like. Tickets $10 in advance; 18+. 8 p.m. The Middle East Downstairs, 472 Mass...
...laptop. He and two friends are preparing to film a western short for Visual and Envirnmental Studies 155r, “Directing Actors for the Camera” in Middlesex, Mass., early Monday morning, with Barth in the cowboy role. Like his on-screen counterpart, Barth has the holsters, (toy) guns, harmonica and requisite hat. Except he’s in the Kirkland House library and wearing a tuxedo...
Grimly, I wondered what I could eat that hadn’t been brutally murdered by our selfish human society. Curried potatoes? Anyone who’s seen Toy Story knows that potatoes walk, talk and even dance like the rest of us (they even have lovable, detachable faces!) Lettuce? Cabbage Patch Kids. Peanut butter cookies? The Planters Peanut man. Whether or not the story concerning the final club is true, I think the Harvard community has a much larger problem on its hands. Why worry about the capture of a chicken that was going to be slaughtered anyway, when...