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Throughout most of the twentieth century, even amateur odds-makers knew that in Boston, there were at least two wagers that you simply did not make--in politics, you never betted on a Kennedy to lose, and in baseball, you never betted...
...irrelevant, they will tell us. You are useless, parasitic hangers-on. You are finished. You were born in the twentieth century...
...game was a great win for us," said Harvard Coach Carole Kleinfelder, who returns for her twentieth season at the helm. "It feels good to get off to a good start by winning our first Ivy League game...
...bookstore looking for a cheap and ugly thing." McSweeney's contributor Sarah Vowell says Eggers' art background shows in both the physical journal and its self-aware marginalia (for example, its website, mcsweeneys.net offers reviewers a list of phrases--"precious, inconsequential, pointless"--to describe the journal). "Twentieth-century art was concerned with the thingness of things, how a painting is paint on a canvas," she says. "You can see that in how he emphasizes the journalness of the journal." It is the magazine as Joseph Cornell...
...with a white beard as one might expect but as a clean-shaven red-robed preacher figure. Act I's storytellers wear all white, and after the fall of man, Eve and Adam don fur vests. Yet in Act II, we find Noah and his children wearing twentieth century rain ponchos. The play is an incomplete anachronism. Ham (Noam Osband '03) wields a gun, while Cain (John Keefe '01) dances around Stonehenge. Cullum's costumes promote a general sense of ambiguity and instead of toying with the musical's indecision, they tend to perpetuate a sense of confusion...