Word: welling
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...rocketed the then-unknown artist to dance floor notoriety. Recognized by the few familiar with the artist as “Dat Kid from Cleveland,” Kid Cudi has been amassing a small following over the past few years, releasing mixtapes and appearing on—as well as contributing songwriting to—Kanye West’s “808s and Heartbreak.” With a talent for balancing the serious and the laughable, Kid Cudi sings and raps about not only the universal experience of heartbreak and regret, but also about the joys...
...singer. Collaborating with Timbaland for a series of hip-hop tracks, including the chart-topping “Promiscuous,” Furtado regained star status. Nelly Furtado had recorded Spanish-language music previously—on 2006’s “Te Busque” as well as 2003’s “Fotografia,” a singles duet with famous Colombian singer-songwriter Juanes—but her new album has steeped her even deeper into the Latin genre. “Mi Plan” features cameos from some of the Latin...
...idea that Pynchon will keep on producing, slowly and steadily, until he just keels over. Although he fulfilled the promise Plimpton saw many years and more pages ago, “Inherent Vice” demonstrates that Pynchon is always willing to go back to the well, with the faith that there will still be something there.—Staff writer Jillian J. Goodman can be reached at jjgoodm@fas.harvard.edu...
...ridiculous prank on an ex-boyfriend that seems almost doomed to end badly. The particulars are inconsequential, but suffice it to say their master plan involves fake roofies and a staged death. When their arrangements take a nasty turn, the sisters decide to dispose of the body in a well mere miles away. Naturally someone discovers their secret and embarks on a massacre during one long day of partying. Of course, this being a sorority movie, the characters do not only make poor choices; they make them while wearing very little clothing. Director Stewart Hendler seems to have been confused...
...visiting professor to HLS and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Sanford V. Levinson, and Kennedy School professor Alexander Keyssar ’69—who, after Klarman’s rousing 12-minute diatribe against the Constitution’s failings, joked that the audience might as well “roll it and smoke it.”Law School professor Noah R. Feldman ’92, who clerked for Souter (“the best year of my life,” he confessed) in 1998, spent the rest of the event teasing...