On the Skin of the World
...music, its conjuring of images. One may also be tempted, under the circumstances, by a largely genetic tack, skirting a marshy text on the firmer ground of history and biography....
Landscape of the Bleeding Crowd
...and scream at all the things. That dinner party at Mildred Adams'—that Spanish-speaking journalist in Granada, you remember?—is far away. My ears are bereft of the music of Albéniz and...
The Benevolence of the Butcher
...the Pleasures of the Table" (1912) The butcher did so. Moments after handing the him the score and bidding him farewell, Haydn heard faint music outside. He went to his...
Coming to Las Vegas
...in the psalm (like an Amen, a moment to mark and to consider the music), and the root word for weight or hang “Hebrew root word salah (Hebrew: ??????) which...
No Life Stories
...data sets turn up correlations beyond our ability to explain them, the logic of explanation is being rewritten culture wide. As Andrejevic notes, “An era of information overload coincides ......
Ramadan Diaries, Day Twenty-Seven
...the chi chi ding dong sound of the berimbau worms its way into my insides and dissipates the pain like an aural analgesic. Music and dance: free Tylenol. ...
Tooth-to-tooth metal lock
...the largest nuclear reactor in Europe alongside a facility that could solve the problem of what to do with spent nuclear fuel. Music Listening Near Bedtime Disruptive To Sleep Blood...
Boy Problems
Gay male intimacy across stark differences of age, power, and money does not transcend these inequities; it depends on them.
Consuming la Malinche, Destroying the Myth
...sexual and political ruin. In popular Mexican culture, la Malinche continues to be used both in public and in the media to signify a particular strain of betrayal. Mexican sports...