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...leisurely as a walk through the English countryside, Nicholson's cultural history is confident in its lack of consequence. Essentially a collection of anecdotes, The Lost Art of Walking is buttressed by the sheer fun of said anecdotes - lists of walking-themed popular tunes and miniprofiles of the stroll-obsessed. It's a fruitful topic: walking is so essential to daily life that one can connect the act to almost every and any historical event or human endeavor - battles, expeditions, feats of endurance, or plain old human evolution as we move from crouched primates to upright homo sapiens. And while...
...fellow senior Alice Chi ’09 on Saturday Nov. 8 with a series of romantic displays that make Prince Charming look like…well, most college boys. O’Herin began in fairy tale fashion with hand delivered poems and roses, followed by a romantic stroll along the Charles, where he popped the question to an unsuspecting Chi. Afterwards, he cleared out his dorm-room for a romantic dinner. HUDS did not make an appearance. Chi realizes that her engagement is a bit untraditional at an age when commitment means going to brain-break together...
...into depression again. They didn't feel unfree; they felt secure. For three and a half decades, from the mid-1930s through the '60s, government imposed order on the market. The jungle of American capitalism became a well-tended garden, a safe and pleasant place for ordinary folks to stroll. Americans responded by voting for F.D.R.-style liberalism - which even most Republican politicians came to accept - in election after election. (Read a TIME cover story on F.D.R...
...grenade. Dr. Siri soon finds himself untangling a mystery involving Hmong insurgents, a possible demonic possession, and a plot by a female terrorist known as the Lizard, who plays Moriarty to his Holmes. As in the previous Dr. Siri books, the plot is mostly a pretext for a leisurely stroll through Laos' history and profoundly rooted religious traditions, and it's this that gives Pogo Stick a certain charm, even if it doesn't always satisfy as a mystery...
...recently survived the indie movie Hounddog, a heaping plate of refried Southern Gothic (known at Sundance as "the Dakota Fanning rape movie") in which she plays another backwoods unfortunate who says in the first scene, "I'm gonna kill my daddy one day." Bees is, by comparison, a pleasant stroll in the Carolina woods...