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Give a mollusk a radio-frequency ID tag, and suddenly--well, slowly--snail mail isn't just wordplay. Artists at the U.K.'s Bournemouth University are upending the term for mail sent via old-school postal services. "We're all living in a speed-obsessed world," says Vicky Isley, which is why she co-created RealSnailMail.net Users submit e-mails that get relayed to a tank with some snails and two electronic readers. A gastropod with a chip on its shell wirelessly picks up a message from one reader and eventually moseys 50 cm to the other, at which point...
...course, it helps that Tha Carter III is one of the best albums of the year. It's a pop play--and smelling it, everyone from Jay-Z to Robin Thicke jumped on board with contributions--but it's still weird enough to sound like underground Lil Wayne. His wordplay can be thrilling ("My picture should be in the dictionary next to the definition of definition"), and no other rapper finds as much joy in rhyming; "in the way," "everyday," "what we say," "clich�," "Andre 3K," "sensei" is a typical string from Dr. Carter, his prescription for what ails...
...until you give her just about enough / Now those girls are dangerous / It’s enough to make you love a bro.” Here, as elsewhere, a tongue-in-cheek attitude prevails that’s refreshing and funny. They dip into Streets-style flirtatious wordplay with the track “Girl,” and it suits the bluesy, British-accented, simultaneously raspy and rich voice of vocalist Kelvin Swaby surprisingly well, as he claims, “Girl / You look like you could have some fun / Better yet you look like you could have...
...begins the onslaught of comedy. The curtains open, a colorful unicorn named “Peggy Seuss” played by David J. Andersson ’09 delivers an introductory soliloquy—and the production’s off to a roaring start. But if wordplay isn’t your cup of tea, not to worry. Hasty Pudding Theatricals, which is presenting its 160th show at the New College Theatre, guarantees more than a few laughs about the Harvard-Yale rivalry and enough celebrity gossip to fill a full year’s subscription...
Taylor, who previously co-edited The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works, is part of a growing cohort of critics who regard Middleton as Shakespeare's equal in wordplay and storytelling. "His is a darkly comic and unsparing view of human nature," says Gail Kern Paster, director of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington. "He has a witty and inventive spirit, and several of his plays are as great as any plays that Shakespeare wrote," she adds, citing The Changeling, Women, Beware Women and The Revenger's Tragedy as examples. The idea now is to push him as a grittier, edgier...