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...upon motionless wing," in Mark Twain's parody) and skin-deep attempts to bring science to the masses. Gould's essays were something else: witty, respectful of readers' intelligence, always finding a principle in a grain of sand and a law in a wildflower. That they were also a velvet glove for Gould's iron convictions drove many scientists crazy, but we all admired his explanatory gifts. My favorite essay was about Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak. "DiMaggio activated the greatest and most unattainable dream of all humanity," Gould wrote, "the hope and chimera of all sages...
...plays the stern Teutonic M.C. Miss Astrid in Manhattan's Va Va Voom Room burlesque show. "But stripping is a man giving money to a woman in exchange for a sexual feeling. The burlesque thing has very little to do with that." Michelle Carr, who founded Los Angeles' Velvet Hammer in 1995, puts it another way: "Go to a strip club, and everyone out of the gate looks exactly the same. What we get is a chance to express ourselves creatively...
...band’s facial hair, chops and slouches are reminiscent of the Strokes, but there all fruitful comparison ends. While the Strokes are discontented and hoarse and definitively tied to the New York sound of predecessors The Ramones and The Velvet Underground, BRMC are brooding and intense, hoarse only when it suits them. Though only drummer Nick Jago is from Britain, the band has an undeniably British sound, with a self-conscious tip of the hat to the Stone Roses. “Rifles” had more pretensions than the Strokes could muster, sounding a little like...
...able to overcome his declining health and maintain a heavy work load. But last week was a different story. The Pope was wheeled into St. Peter's Basilica on a moving platform. And though he attended all the festivities leading up to Easter and read several homilies from his velvet throne, the Pope remained on the sidelines as the rites of the Mass were performed by prominent Cardinals. Among the annual gestures most dear to the Pope has been the Holy Thursday washing of the feet of 12 priests, symbolizing Jesus' act of humility before the Apostles...
Three weeks ago, after manually constructing breasts, bruising myself with batons and adorning a blue crushed velvet leotard, I captured the title of Miss Harvard 2002. I successfully transformed myself from an awkward nerd to a voluptuous bombshell by applying a sharp razor to my hairy legs and a thick layer of concealer to my blemished face. Post-pageant, with my bouquet of roses dying and my breasts in the trash can, I assumed I would resume the mundane, insular life where I’m mildly anti-social and invariably celibate (the latter not by choice). But the rhinestone...