Stephen Fry Would Like to Remind You That You Have No Free Will
Talk By David Marchese We all have them: cultural figures whom, beyond any single thing they’ve done, we’re just kind of glad to have around, and whose sensibility seems to jibe in some fundamental way with our own. I remember when Stephen Fry started to become such a figure for me. I was a teenage Anglophile, sitting at home on a slow afternoon this would have been the late ’90s and watching a rerun of the British sketch-comedy show “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” (Judge me not.) Fry appeared on the screen, a tall, urbane man with a zigzag nose. He was improvising a story in the style of John le Carré novels. “George,” he began, referring, I would understand later, to le Carré’s spymaster George Smiley and doing so in what I dimly inferred was a tone of upper-class officiousness. “Control’s gone potty, George. Operation Ascot went downhill, George, since the lamplighters and t
A Teenager Mistakenly Moved Into a Senior Living Complex. TikTok Loves It.
After living for a week in an apartment complex for older adults, Madison Kohout, 19, discovered why she was the youngest resident by decades.
Madison Kohout, 19, has shared on TikTok her experiences of moving into an apartment complex for older adults.Credit.Madison Kohout
May 3, 2021, 12:22 p.m. ET
When Madison Kohout, 19, moved into her new apartment complex, she didn’t think much of the average age of her neighbors.
After all, she had scored a nice apartment in the northeast Arkansas City of Piggott after moving there from Oklahoma. About a week in her new home, however, Ms. Kohout saw a sign outside the 10-unit complex that she hadn’t noticed before.
Art & Design|A 140-Year-Old Hemlock Was Lost. Now It Has New Life as Art.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/03/arts/design/frederic-church-olana-jean-shin.html
In memory of the millions of hemlocks that fell in the 19th century to the local leather-tanning industry, Jean Shin used antique bark-peeling tools to remove the tree’s outer layer before giving it a protective new coat.Credit.Amanda Picotte for The New York Times
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A 140-Year-Old Hemlock Was Lost. Now It Has New Life as Art.
The sculptor Jean Shin gravitates to castoff objects, including a threatened tree at Olana, the former estate of Frederic Church.