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There are some key reasons why the bikini has been and will continue to be popular??minimizing tan lines, for example, or keeping cool in the blistering sun. But really, the added bonus is that bikinis are like Halloween costumes; both give young women a chance to wear modified forms of lingerie in public...
...Strauss’s score—no insertions of guitars or anything like that—but the context makes it clear that they’re talking less about the relationship between the comic and the serious and more about that between the “popular?? and the “classical.” The conceit plays out well, especially as the Composer falls in love with the leader of the troupe, Zerbinetta (the soprano Rachele Gilmore). Their duet, “Ein Augenblick ist wenig, ein Blick ist viel?...
...Campus Wellesley, the aptly-named Wellesley section of the site, came under fire for its “Mr. Wellesley Freshman” competition, based on Freeze College Magazine’s popular??“Mr. Harvard Freshman” contest. Students from the women’s college were encouraged to nominate men from other schools to compete for the title. The winner would then vie in the Her Campus “Mr. Campus Freshman” contest, a nationwide search for “the coolest, sexiest, and funniest freshman in America...
Suddenly, Nick’s wry observations are funny. Often relegated to high school English reading lists, “Gatsby” has always been popular??but not necessarily understood. What is inevitably lost in the commotion of the American dream, unrequited love, and two tragic deaths is Fitzgerald’s humor. Shepherd manages to draw out the wit and sarcasm of the narrator, capitalizing on dramatic pauses and pointed glances at the audience. As he reads Fitzgerald’s exposition aloud, his earnest and deadpan drawl meshes well with the reflective musings of Midwesterner...
Munro’s stories may be the yogurt of the literary world, but there is a reason yogurt is so popular??it is impossible to truly dislike. At their best, her stories in “Too Much Happiness” are proof that the best writing need not reach for grandeur. However, Munro runs into the inevitable danger of writing within a narrow world, and her stories begin to seem undistinguishable from one another. Instead of presenting readers with a slice of Munro’s world, it starts to feel as if she were reaching...