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When America First Dropped Acid
One evening in September of 1957, viewers across America could turn on their television sets and tune in to a CBS broadcast during which a young woman dropped acid. She sat next to a man in a suit: Sidney Cohen, the researcher who had given her the LSD. The woman wore lipstick and nail polish, and her eyes were shining. “I wish I could talk in Technicolor,” she said. And, at another point, “I can see the molecules. I .
رحلة مصعب أبو توهة المحفوفة بالأهوال للخروج من غزة
لا نريد أنا وزوجتي الرحيل عندما تأتي الحرب إلى غزة. بل نرغب في البقاء مع والدينا وأشقائنا وشقيقاتنا، ونعرف أن مغادرة غزة تعني أن نتركهم وراءنا. وحتى عندما يُفتَح المعبر الحدودي مع مصر أمام حَمَلة جوازات السفر الأجنبية مثل ابننا مصطفى البالغ من العمر ثلاثة أعوام، نقرر البقاء. شقتنا في مدينة بيت لاهيا في شمالي قطاع غزة تقع في الطابق الثالث. فوقنا وتحتنا يسكن أخوتي ويعيش والديّ في الطابق الأرضي. يربّي والدي الدجاج والأرانب في الحديقة. وعندي مكتبة مليئة بالكتب
What Do We Want from Comedy?
In almost every TV comedy special, there’s a telling cutaway that the director felt obliged to insert. It shows spectators in the theatre rented for the occasion—usually a half row, half a dozen people—erupting in laughter at something outrageous that the comedian has just said while turning with quick, happy complicity to exchange a guilty glance for having done so. As often as not, someone in the row covers her face or offers an abashed look, before rocking back and
Betye Saar Reassembles the Lives of Black Women
The artist Betye Saar lives less than two miles from the bars, billboards, and bustle of Los Angeles’s Sunset Boulevard, but her home, in Laurel Canyon, seems far removed from Sunset’s gleaming capitalism and packaged sex. Saar’s studio and house, where she has lived for more than sixty years—she is now ninety-seven—are dedicated to history, especially American history as it relates to Black women. In her work, that history is often told through pop-culture artifacts, which, in Saar’s hands, take
Reinventing the Dinosaur | The New Yorker
The original mount had three claws on each of those curiously short front arms; when paleontologists concluded that the T. rex had only two claws, one was plucked off each arm. In the early nineteen-nineties, more changes were made. The pose was altered. Its head and neck were lowered, so that it now looks more like a magnificent, giant, running chicken. Today, the T. rex stands only twelve feet above the ground at its highest point.
By one estimate, a