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...This Was Your Life,” takes the events of Rakowitz’s life as inspiration and tries to recreate the East Village of yesteryear. The piece is an amalgamated portrait of junkie life: a cheap leather couch held up on cinder blocks, a fake plastic tree, snakeskin boots, and a framed news clipping detailing the aforementioned events. The Saatchi Gallery now features this installation (along with other works by Snow) and calls it “a portrait of a monster as a sad, pathetic, ridiculous clich?...
...Gavin can’t be reduced to the wishy-washy presence behind the theme song for teen drama One Tree Hill. He can rock out. Blanket characterizations of his songs as merely mellow, acoustic melodies do a disservice to DeGraw’s talents—he can bring the noise and energy as well as any performer gracing the spring concert circuit of American colleges. Look out, Girl Talk...
...aura itself—an outdoor, grassy spring affair in the afternoon. Now, I love a good rage-fest as much as the next guy, but Yardfest is more about a laid-back, relaxing evening to enjoy good music, good food, and good company underneath the budding tree canopy of Tercentenary Theater. What could be more quintessentially collegiate than relaxing in the Yard while listening to a guitar-wielding crooner...
...exploration, Yalini comes to realize that she is the product of her ancestors, most resembling an aunt named Uma who was brilliant but suffered from an undefined mental disorder, possibly schizophrenia. The novel develops a complex and multi-faceted relationship with tradition. We see Yalini’s family tree before we hear a word of the story, and this respect for tradition is further emphasized by Yalini’s admiration for her mother, who does things “Properly”—with a capital P. Although her parents tried to follow...
...even one foot across the threshold, the decision would be made, she would do it. She was suddenly aware of the fragrant air, astonishingly heavy and moist for the summer. She heard, as if from a piano, note by melodious note, the birds that nested in the lone apple tree that leaned over the shed; saw as if through a magnifying glass the leaves of grass which were still the pale green of newborn shoots. She inhaled quickly and deeply as she noticed a gardener sleeping beneath a distant tree.“Perhaps I shall kill him as well...