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...reconciled overnight. And recent studies showing that marijuana can have addictive properties, though in a small percentage of cases, is going to make some parents more nervous about their kids turning into potheads. While alcohol and cigarettes may be more dangerous, a lot of parents would rather smell beer on their kid's breath than have a 29-year-old living at home, eating Cheetos and watching SpongeBob. --With reporting by Matt Baron/Chicago, Laura A. Locke/San Francisco, Viveca Novak/Washington and Sean Scully/Los Angeles
...what are students talking about? Well, some at least are very concerned about whether they will be able to drink beer from cups filled from a keg at the Yale football game, or will have to drink from bottles or cans instead. The issue has been presented by some as between healthy, happy fun and the crushing of the last vestige of social life at Harvard by the jackbooted heel of the College administration. A petition, more calmly worded than some of the e-mails I have received, argues for kegs on economic, medical, sociological and even environmental grounds...
...would be too dismissive. Something real is going on here, but it’s beneath the surface. Students who are passionate on this subject, doubtless skilled in writing Social Analysis and Moral Reasoning papers, haven’t come to grips with why they care so much about beer vessels...
...teenager in exile from Germany in 1939, Freud attended art school near Constable's birthplace in Suffolk, although that didn't make him an admirer. He was all too familiar with Constable's most famous painting, The Hay Wain, because "it was everywhere in England, on tablecloths, on beer coasters ..." Disdain turned to admiration only after Freud saw Constable's small, closeup painting of a tree trunk - and tried to do one himself: "It was a catastrophe." Appropriately, Freud opens the show with Constable's tree trunk, followed by some 200 paintings, drawings and watercolors that trace the evolution...
...Tillmans’ images are authentic or posed in such a way that they look authentic. It doesn’t seem to matter, however, as these objects represent details of anyone’s life. Whether or not we come away with a greater appreciation for fruit or beer bottles, we do begin to understand that these objects are signifiers for something deeper...