Word: wonders
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...Some people didn’t dress for the occasion but left with a lot less than they came with,” says Catherine M. “Hoppy” Maffione ’08, co-chair of the HoCo. So it’s no wonder that, as Jewett so astutely remarked, Debauchery has a reputation as being “risqué.” And it’s precisely this reputation that feeds into the event’s popularity. If you believe all the things you hear, Debauchery featured secret police, half-dressed...
...Little wonder. The 138 paintings and drawings, most of them selected from some 300 of Filonov's works donated by his sister Yevdokiya Glebova to the Russian Museum in 1977, open a window into the disturbing and intriguing world of a mysterious 20th century genius...
...South Pacific, ferries out from the Florida Keys toward the Gulf of Mexico, and celebrates the remarkable recovery of the Mauritian kestrel. There is a subtle method to Wilson’s reminisces; his musings on the mandibles of the Thaumatomyrmex (Greek, he explains, for “wonderful ant”) are not without purpose. Only when the wonder of each species and ecosystem is understood, Wilson suggests, will humans cease to dominate and instead begin “to serve them as their stewards.” And so it is that from Wilson’s meditations...
...insinuated the men in space suits driving MTV flags into the moon.In retrospect, The Buggles were a little too quick to blow up that poor girl’s large transistor radio in the video. The Buggles now languish in one-hit-wonder hell, MTV has banned music videos to the outer-most reaches of cable, and if anyone still wants to grow up to be a VJ, one look at Carson Daly should be enough to kill that ambition. Radio, it seems, refuses to be killed.While radio may have temporarily regained its footing, it’s still...
...Still, many wonder if the response will turn out to be just more window dressing in the aftermath of the death of officer Filippo Raciti, a father of two from Catania, Sicily. Initial threats from the government to actually shut down the entire league until security could be guaranteed have given way to the less extreme measures, which turn out to be similar to bills approved by Parliament in the past, but subsequently not enforced. Violence at soccer games has been a weekly affair for the past decade. Fan organizations (known as Ultras) often at the center of riots against...