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Hooray for Bill Gates, I guess. Hooray (long ago) for Marconi's gypsy cart, the telegraph. The transcontinental railroad was a marvelous new cart (though you get an argument on that from remnant buffalo and Sioux). The interstate highway system, brightest cultural blossom of the Eisenhower years, was a wonder. So were the electric carving knife, the fax machine and the splendid neckties and haircuts of the 1970s...
...recent arrival in Hollywood, writing scripts for MGM. Nine pages later, he's not only describing the Marx Brothers jumping all over Somerset Maugham, "screaming like devils," but also watching Aldous Huxley and Charlie Chaplin singing old London music-hall songs on the Santa Monica Pier. No wonder the unchanging center of Isherwood's life, the Hindu Vedantist teacher Swami Prabhavananda, asked his worldly disciple to bring the Duke of Windsor to his Hollywood temple: Isherwood was the rare Hollywood Hindu who did justice to both the adjective and the noun...
...that people look down on Pitchfork users? Sure, and I would agree with you that those are the real snobs you and I know and love to hate. I would contend, however, that their argument differs from my own, and it is their brand of snobbery that makes me wonder about “indie” music in general. What the hell is it, and why do we care? Give me the damn Goo Goo Dolls again, they don’t pretend to be anything but cheesy...
...impressive streak that went happily uninterrupted save a brief, ill-advised turn as a pale pink Care Bear.But when my relatives glance at this undoubtedly adorable photo today, they don’t smile and laugh. Instead, their lips purse, puzzlement sets in, and they begin to wonder: what happened to you? As it happens, I’ve been wondering a bit too.I’m 20 years old, a junior in college. I’m only a year or so removed from that time when my peers will enter medical school and fulfill the prophecies...
Several students who spoke to FM wonder if the College administration’s renewed focus on creating a women’s center has anything to do with combating the PR nightmare caused by Summers’ infamous Jan. 14 remarks on the “intrinsic aptitude” of women in science...