Word: cool
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...that first drivelous column idea, for my final message to underclassmen (or, in The Crimson's gender-neutral language, "half-pints"), I tried to get back to the core of my Harvard experience. On a sunny day, I sat out by the Charles with a beach towel and a cool drink and watched the crew boats go by. Then I thought: who am I kidding? Through my four years at Harvard I've never had time to sit by the river and relax: I've done as much sunbathing as a sightless mole. I've heard that...
...cool look of this week's Visions package belongs to deputy art director Cynthia Hoffman, with the invaluable assistance of Jennifer Taney, and the picture department's MaryAnne Golon and Jay Colton...
Parents should intervene directly, however, whenever an argument turns violent. Most kids hate fighting--even when they're winning. They do it because they don't have other tools for dealing with their frustrations. Fighters should be separated to cool off, and a parent should later listen to both parties, asking the kids to help come up with a solution. The parent shouldn't cast one child as a bully and the other as the victim; fights among siblings are seldom this simple...
...most significant of Webre's innovations, though, is his choreography, which crossbreeds the time-tested language of ballet with the high energy and cool irony of pop culture. The results, though sometimes too glibly "accessible," are more often bracingly individual. This season, for example, has seen company premieres of Fluctuating Hemlines, inspired by Camille Paglia's iconoclastic Sexual Personae; Carmina Burana, an unabashedly sexy dance pageant accompanied by Carl Orff's thunderous choral settings of medieval poems about love and lust; and Juanita y Alicia, a "family album" set to Buena Vista Social Club-type music performed live...
...this year from Bungie, is building buzz for its amazing graphics, rumored to be the most realistic ever. In one exciting sequence, you and your buddies team up to man different posts on a tanklike military transport--one person driving, another at the big gun, a third riding shotgun. Cool...