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After eight years on TV--the length, you'll note, of a two-term presidency--the head of the Soprano crime family is thinking about his legacy. (Fair warning: here's where the spoilers begin.) In the first new episode, Tony, still feeling the effects of having been gut-shot by dementia-addled Uncle Junior, is celebrating his 47th birthday. Later there's a reference to one of his Mob peers, who died at 47. No one connects the dots explicitly, but the parallel is not lost on Tony. "My estimate, historically, 80% of the time, [a Mob boss] ends...
Down 6-4 entering the final frame, the quarter was defined by a pair of unassisted scores. The first came from sophomore midfielder Nick Smith, who went the length of the field while dodging Quaker defenders to score with 9:41 to play in regulation. Timeouts from each team in the next two and a half minutes heightened the tension before freshman midfielder Jason Duboe mimicked Smith, slicing through the Penn defense on his way to a score at the 6:28 mark to tie the game...
...made in 1969 by the great Polish sculptor Magdalena Abakanowicz, an early adopter of "humble" women's crafts like weaving as high-art techniques. She also understood how abstract images could be adjusted until they hinted again at something human. So the quasi-vaginal slit that runs the length of her piece shifts it from the realm of mere geometry to something much more intimate. And the scale, roughly 13 ft. in diameter, makes it not so much a thing as a place, enveloping and pulsing with red life. That's a lot of psychic reverberation for one piece...
SIMPLY PUT, THE BIBLE IS THE MOST influential book ever written. Not only is the Bible the best-selling book of all time, it is the best-selling book of the year every year. In a 1992 survey of English teachers to determine the top-10 required "book-length works" in high school English classes, plays by Shakespeare occupied three spots and the Bible none. And yet, let's compare the two: Beauty of language: Shakespeare, by a nose. Depth of subject matter: toss-up. Breadth of subject matter: the Bible. Numbers published, translated etc: Bible. Number of people martyred...
...butter Harvard students rub on themselves, social interactions will be as insufficiently lubricated as the awkward snakebite-style handjobs you and your roommate exchanged last night. There’s a good solution to this, but Stillman Infirmary limits “vacations” to a week in length. So just give up, surrender, and enjoy the gayest day of your life. FOOTNOTES: 1. Blockstab – v. to engage in any lying, deceit or betrayal associated with blocking 2. Fugmo - n. super ugly person, probably with a snaggletooth, the complete opposite of the lovely Derek...