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...High Fidelity” started as an extremely popular British book about a thirtysomething record storeowner, Rob Gordon, who understands his love of music more than his love life before being adapted into a perhaps better loved film, set in Chicago. The movie improved upon Hornby’s dry wit, obsession with pop music, and musings on romance with the talent of John Cusack, Jack Black, and Tim Robbins, and a soundtrack ranging from indie pop to Motown soul...
...exactly what the title says it does. Likewise, Rosemarie Trockel’s “Made in Western Germany” is aptly titled on several levels: quite literally made in Western Germany, the pea-green wool background of the piece is also broken up by row upon row of the title’s words...
This story of overcoming obstacles is one you would not wish upon anyone. But for freshman running back Cheng Ho, it has been the story of his life...
...most students find out soon upon arrival at Harvard, student groups endowed with pillow money—from this newspaper to The Lampoon to Final Clubs—are the organizations with the greatest institutional strength, security, and draw. Without that legacy of luxury, an overwhelming majority of the 300 or so student groups at Harvard are forced to depend on the strained process of UC grants to remain functional; in total, groups received $208,282.91 last year, a paltry half of the $551,599.33 requested...
...Mused Dmitri Furman, Professor of the Russian Academy's of Sciences Institute of Europe: "In Soviet times, funerals of individuals frowned upon by the state but beloved by the people emerged as the only form of spontaneous public protest." Furman invoked the funeral of poet Boris Pasternak in 1960, which grew into the first spontaneous demonstration by the Soviet intelligentsia in decades. He also recalled the funeral of poet and bard Vladimir Vysotsky in 1980. In contrast to the refined Pasternak, the folksy Vysotsky, perennially restricted and harassed by the authorities, was as popular among ordinary Soviets as Elvis Presley...