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...David Gilmour had been brought in to fill the hole made by Syd's psychic withdrawal. In 1968 Syd left for real. He then worked with David and Rick Wright on two solo albums, which are chaotic but include great writing. He had this unique whimsical style?and at a time when songwriting demanded American pronunciation, he sang in the Queen's English...
...fourall-too-brief seasons (30 episodes in all), Bob Odenkirk, below left, and David Cross were the Wright brothers of experimental TV comedy, and Mr. Show was their Kitty Hawk. The loosely themed episodes run the end of one skit into the beginning of the next, sparking provocative ideas off one another like a chain-smoker's cigarettes. Taking full advantage of its HBO-ensured freedom, the episodes are hilarious and offensive on numerous levels. One includes an ad for Mr. Pickles' Fun-Time Abortion Clinics ("We'll Bring Out the Kid in Ya!"), while in another, Mr. Show...
...mitigate some of the more obvious excesses. Down at the bedrock level of the bogus injury and the attempt to get one's opponent sent off, a yet more eyes-wide-open cynicism occasionally prevails. Of course players dived for penalties, the former England international footballer Ian Wright said recently. "So why don't we? It will happen to us again, so we should." Happily, this kind of attitude has a corrective. It can sometimes be found in sportsmen themselves, but is more reliably expressed by the people who watch sports or report and analyze them for public consumption. Significantly...
...world and our relationships with others. It can set standards and create structures that will promote the development of citizens rather than merely individual minds. And it can ask more of its students than mere self-reliance, for I fear we have learned that lesson too well.Hannah E.S. Wright ’06, who was a Crimson associate editorial chair in 2005, is a social studies concentrator in Lowell House...
...White, thought that she had published too little to be tenured: “Some seniors supported her, one or two were hostile to it as I remember, and I suspect the bulk, like me, voted on the grounds that it was premature without further work.”WRIGHT AND WRONG“The Skocpol affair more expressed tensions than caused them, I think. This was an era of charged political atmosphere,” recalls White. Indeed, the Sociology Department was not the only one to be accused of discrimination. In the spring of 1981, Josephine P. Wright...