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Style Idol: Oscar Wilde gone straight and still just as loathsome My style in three words: Vain. My style in one sentence: Dorian Grey without all the cutesy bullshit...
...neat rows of square mirrors line another one. The black and white color scheme and geometric motif is persistent. Even the mounted black and white portraits of him are in rectangular frames. “That’s from a friend who knew that I was just vain enough to hang up pictures of myself,” he chuckles. “You can write that down.” Matsui replaced the drab dorm lamps with the mod light of a movie projector. The compact machine rests on her desk, poised to illuminate the opposite wall, blank...
...Ninth Symphony in May 1824. For anyone that has heard it before (or at least seen the unspeakably horrible Starz movie network commercial that uses it), the music is undeniably majestic. Morris writes that “for the rest of the century, symphonic composers would struggle in vain to write anything that sounded bigger.” Beethoven, deaf and facing the orchestra, did not realize the audience was enthusiastically clapping until a teenage soprano turned him around...
Twice a year, I open my mailbox to find an envelope from Captain Brian Sullivan at MIT, and twice a year, I hope in vain that, like my grandmother, he’s sending me a birthday card or an interesting article that he found in his local newspaper. I’m always disappointed, though, because I always find a photocopied letter that promises me thousands of dollars in scholarships, summer travel around the world, and an opportunity to serve my country. I just have to sign up for the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC...
...forum, justifying the “explicit, even gruesome, images of wartime violence.” He encouraged remembrance of World War II, when censorship dominated the press, reverence for the First Amendment, and recollection of a Time magazine caption: “Dead men have indeed died in vain if live men refuse to look at them.” Although a disclaimer at the bottom of every NTFU page purports domicile in the Netherlands and immunity to prosecution through Dutch law, its opening banner laments “America isn’t easy…Let?...