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...neither a treatise nor a text-book. Actually, no one is really sure what the book is. What can be said is that Ka contains a fascinating collection of stories at once comical, mysterious, unnerving and erotic, told by a brilliant modern narrator. The book actually reads like a post-modern Hindu campfire story. The fifteen sections of the book recount all the stories contained in the major theological and mythological texts of India, but Calasso does not assume any prior knowledge of the Rig-Veda, the Mahabharata or the like, nor does he linger on the stories' historical background...
...also continued a discussion from their March meeting about text-book prices at the Coop. John Paul Rollert '00 and other council members surveyed textbook prices at various universities and found that books were 10 percent more expensive at the Coop on average...
...first half of the exhibition we find canvases which provide an almost text-book example of an artist struggling to develop his own style. He begins with rather academic work, the most interesting of which are his two self portraits from 1896 and 1897. In the earlier of these paintings, we see a young man in three-quarter profile looking out at us from beneath the shadow of his dark, unkempt, hair. Energetic brushstrokes define the facial features while his body melts off the canvas in a blur of brown. Yet despite the temerity of Picasso's mark making...
...slick-looking granite building on Mt. Auburn Street that Kinko's occupies may be a text-book Boston office building, but when the late-night crowd takes over around 11 p.m. the innocent-looking copy center begins to change into club Kinko...
...center Vinnie Auger exploded down the right side of the ice into the Crimson zone. In text-book fashion, Auger whipped the puck across the goalline onto the stick of an unmarked teammate Matt Cooney who one-timed Cornell's second goal into the back...