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Like athletes in all major sporting events, golfers at the Open undertake this challenge with the added pressure of intense scrutiny: spectators, TV cameras and journalists dissect every aspect of their game, and up-to-the-second scoreboards offer players the strange meta-drama of watching their own performance unfold in front of them. That said, British Open courses such as Birkdale tend to be more sparsely decorated than the courses on which U.S. majors are played: with fewer scoreboards and no JumboTrons, the Open reminds competitors that golf is essentially a lonely sport, designed to be played over...
...punishments for individual crimes. When societies sin--dismissing the poor, despoiling the planet--who, exactly, should pay, and how? I am responsible for the lies I tell or the fries I crave and have a duty to give to the poor. But what about social injustice? How do I dissect the sources to find the sin? I try not to litter, but I have to drive. Am I a sinner on days I fail to carpool...
...poem carries juice to touch your soul. That’s the reason for poetry. Not to dissect it, like in literature classes...
...with her there, but then why dissect the story of Phaeton (Matthew I. Bohrer ’10) and Apollo (Hill) with such ruthless precision? Why have Apollo’s son tell his story to a long-winded psychiatrist, who tears Phaeton’s tale to shreds with psychoanalytical terminology? If the value of myth is its magical elusiveness, why pin it down? Fables may have morals, but myths do not, and this may be a distinction that Zimmerman forgot to make...
...English - videos and paintings, Calle subjects the e-mail to a tidal wave of abuse and cunning deconstruction. She recruits 107 women, including a few celebrated ones like Jeanne Moreau, Laurie Anderson and Miranda Richardson, to read the letter, act it out, set it to music or coolly dissect it. Many of them turn up on a video wall on which they perform and deform the text more than 30 ways, including as a Bunraku puppet show, an aria, a rap song and a clown routine. On another screen a white cockatoo grabs a paper copy in one claw...