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...Irish rockers with mullets to global superstars. "It's a Dutch reformer's eye. I don't think he even knows how Protestant he is." Corbijn's relationship with U2 stretches back 25 years and has always gone beyond the role of photographer. For the cover of The Joshua Tree, he took the band to the Mojave Desert. The tree "fascinated" Corbijn, says Bono, so "he just asked us to stand against it. We hadn't figured out he was giving us the name of what would be one of our more important albums...
...found the book, and ensconced myself in our reading chair. Thanks to Hemingway’s lean, clean prose, images of Boulevard St. Germain and the Café des Amateurs filled my days. Stories of the writer hobnobbing with Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, and F. Scott Fitzgerald on the tree-lined streets of Paris made my café au lait-deprived heart turn the pages for more. Hemingway steered me through his time in Paris at a snappy pace, without belaboring any one point. This vision, however, is Paris without Dior sunglasses and Chanel-infused air: the caf?...
Though many of the facts of the situation are still unclear, the final violence in Jena seems to stem from an incident in August 2006 in which white students placed nooses on a schoolyard tree after black students had the audacity to sit under it. The fact that neither the local prosecutor nor the federal district attorney could find statutes that such an dastardly and hate-filled act of intimidation violated points to a major problem with federal and local hate crime statutes...
There is admittedly a certain irony in redefining as luxury items ingredients formerly associated with subsistence eating or animal feed. It wasn't all that long ago, before the days of Nordic affluence and takeout pizza, that eating tree bark and foraging for edible lawn clippings were reserved for dire necessity or particularly hard times. "For a long time," says Danish restaurant critic and former Slow Food president Bent Christensen, "all we had were pigs, coal, potatoes and the cold. We were not proud of our own kitchen. Not anymore. We want to discover our own good things. Nordic cuisine...
...moved the offending dressers to the next room over, while the space-saving hutch that started out on top of the 25% smaller desk is serving a better purpose as a bench. It’s now supporting his buttocks instead of his books, which is really what the tree would have wanted, anyway...