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Samad and Archie’s stories, as well as the stories from their long-suffering young wives?? points of view, make up the first and best half of the book. But “White Teeth” changes once Smith takes up the mantle of the new generation, the products of cross-cultural fertilization. Smith provides a snapshot of Archie’s daughter Irie writing feverishly in her diary. Her depiction of overwrought adolescence is pitch-perfect: “8:30 P.M. Millat just walked in. He’s sooo gorgeous but ultimately...
...they’re lovingly referred to, are still being awarded for improbable (and bizarre) research findings. FM attended last week’s awards in Sanders Theatre. The scene was chaotic, uncomfortable, but nonetheless amusing as answers to questions we never knew we had were answered and old wives?? tales debunked (don’t worry, you can keep cracking your knuckles; if laureate Donald L. Unger didn’t get arthritis after 60 years of constant knuckle cracking, you won’t be getting it anytime soon either). Between the man?...
Monday, I tried to tell a high school junior on a college tour what life is like at Harvard. He wasn’t interested in the old wives?? tales he’d heard of mere graduate students loosed upon the world (they give lectures, coordinate review sessions, and worship the shape-shifter Loki), and lacked a susceptibility to that favorite sirenian suasion of the admissions department, the faculty-student ratio. Instead, he wanted to know what every Harvard applicant wants to know: Are people happy here? Might we, at day’s end, call Harvard...
Students’ ambiguity about the syndrome and its treatment has led to a proliferation of use and abuse on campus—but the alarm bells are not sounding. For the Ritalin Generation, "speed kills" sounds like an old wives?? tale, and a prescription slip for Adderall looks no different from a 7/11 energy drink receipt...
...series. The moment when she silently realizes that she is better without him—conveyed simply by her dynamic facial expression and a well-framed shot of her husband’s empty chair—packs more feminist punch than “The First Wives?? Club” or “The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood” combined...