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Portnoy (one always wants to type Porn-toy) was born, like Roth, in 1933; Marcus Messner, the hero of Indignation, is a year older. Like Portnoy, Marcus comes from a smotheringly protective Jewish family in Newark, N.J. ("You are a boy with a magnificent future ahead of you," Marcus' father tells him. "How do I know you're not going to places where you can get yourself killed?") Like Portnoy, Marcus escapes to college in Ohio, where he is baffled and inflamed by the attentions of a sexually unfettered shiksa. Unlike Portnoy, Indignation is a weird, flawed little book, full...
Considered the ultimate boy's toy, the Ferrari represents the pinnacle of success, for those willing to pay the price. It has been a collector's item for wealthy Italians like Gianni Agnelli and Roberto Rossellini and European royalty such as Baron de Rothschild and the Aga Khan. After Hollywood gave it a starring role in The Thomas Crown Affair in 1968, a legion of iconic owners, including Dean Martin, Elvis Presley and Steve McQueen, followed...
...Patriot Act UP,” set to traditional American songs by Morton Gould and John Philip Sousa, was intended to be a political commentary questioning the package of patriotism. Cochran communicated the playful satire by producing props from her costume such as a lollipop, a toy flag, and a noisemaker as the tune suddenly changed patriotic music to gunshots at the end of the piece...
Listening to Sam D.G. Jacoby ’08, you’d think there was a tiny factory—one as enchanting as the Santa’s toy workshop—hidden in the basement of Adams House. “From the street, you can look through the windows and see these massive machines with people wearing aprons bent over them, hard at work on mysterious old-timey tasks,” Jacoby says. The view from inside isn’t much different. The space smells like oil and metal, the walls are plastered with...
...what kids want." But what if those extra dimensions send kids the message that for a story to feel real, a mere book isn't enough? With its glossy clear plastic front cover, The Maze of Bones hardly looks like a book at all. It looks like a toy. Like Voldemort and his horcruxes, its soul has been divided among multiple vessels. But what Voldemort failed to understand, of course, is that each division diminishes the whole...