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Despite these liabilities, though, walking yields real pleasure. There’s something primal about it: the extension of the long muscles of your thighs, the swing of your knee’s hinge, the kick at the apex of your stride, the roll of your foot’s fine, differentiated bones against the pavement. Walking allows you to think: Charles Dickens, I read once, often walked 20 miles a day and would come back brimming with new characters, dialogue and melodrama. And Dickens did it in the days before really comfortable footwear. Too, walking provides a friendly view...
...with his retinue. (Most of the leading characters are based on real people.) To Swearengen, the formula is simple: former lawman + gunfighter = nascent police force, especially when the two stumble on a massacre-robbery perpetrated by "road agents" working for him. It seems, though, that Bullock just wants to kick his law habit and make a dollar, and Hickok, to drink and gamble his way into oblivion. "Hickok was acutely aware of his time having passed," says Carradine. "He had outlived his usefulness." Throw in abused prostitute Trixie (Paula Malcomson); Alma Garret, a laudanum-addicted lady from back East (Molly...
Opener “The Wrong Way” begins with pumping jazz saxophones and turns into some kind of evangelical gospel cry as soon as the vocals kick in. The song is a poignant call to arms for liberty in the face of racial and social adversity, a message that resonates powerfully despite the track’s playful pace. “Hey, desperate youth! / Oh, blood thirsty babes! / Oh your guns are pointed / your guns are pointed the wrong way,” Adebimpe sings with disarming import...
...Mainstage, the Loeb’s other, significantly larger venue will kick off their spring season the week following spring break. In addition to the musical Sunday in the Park with George, which will run from the final week of April until May 8th, the Mainstage will also house a fresh take on Tom Stoppard’s popular play, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead for a two-week run from April...
...Harvard students, faculty, staff and community members walked out of lectures and seminars, day jobs and high school classes, forgoing business as usual on the first day of the bombing of Iraq. As bombs rained down on Baghdad for a 24-hour straight saturation bombardment to kick off the U.S. “shock and awe” campaign, a crowd gathered in front of the John Harvard statue for one of the largest rallies in Harvard history, followed by a march into Boston...