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...stories about their kids as illustrations of medieval medical history (Kass Professor of the History of Medicine Allan M. Brandt). But for every good teacher I’ve had, there is another who deserved the Teaching Police: there was the professor with organizational skills based solely on conversational whim, the professor who spoke in a whisper and looked up from his feet only when the fire alarm went off and the multiple professors who spent fourteen 52-minute sessions reading directly from thick pages of text. And let’s not forget the quality teaching fellows...
...tries to send his pet mouse into outer space, tied to a balloon. Ramsay came late to that kind of weirdness. Raised in a working class district of Glasgow, she was weaned on nothing more unconventional than Douglas Sirk and Bette Davis movies. She stumbled into filmmaking on a whim. The strength of her still photographs won her a place in the cinematography program at the National Film School in London. In 1995, her graduating year, she turned three of her own stories about childhood loss of innocence into Small Deaths. At the time, Ramsay recalls, "many students were worried...
...fact that I would never myself become a full-fledged fashionista became painfully apparent as time wore on. Flashing the Vogue card always felt a little pretentious and slightly phony. For one thing, everyone who forges a career in fashion magazines is always immaculately groomed. At the whim of a stylist, who envisaged a “boho-chic” shoot surrounded by red desert sands, we drove 15 hours from Sydney to a town in the middle of the Australian outback incidentally made famous as the location where the drag-queen epic The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen...
Created on a whim one afternoon, it’s a remarkably versatile work, with moments that are aggressively visceral, irreverent, intensely paranoid and eerily beautiful. Missy Elliott’s familiar “Get Ur Freak On” crashes into violent breakcore shards from DJ Scud and militant boom-bap from Dead Prez early on, yet an hour later the listener is swimming deliriously in the audio experiments of Oval and Muslimgauze. But DJ /rupture’s real brilliance lies not in his eclecticism, an aspiration that Clayton finds “horrifying?...
...just gotten out of jail,” she said. “Erica had moved here on a whim. I wasn’t going to interrupt anything...