Word: abstraction
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...three leading actors’ performances are beyond praise. Del Toro’s quietly charged portrayal of Jack paints a compassionate man whose very love for Jesus blinds him into eschewing familial relations for one that exists in the abstract, while Penn can be charming, sad and pitiful all in the same shot. Most impressive, however, is Watts as a bereaved mother, unrelentingly peeling back layer upon layer of unmentionable grief. Many of Watts’s best moments would’ve neared over-the-top drama in the hands of many other actresses, yet the camera?...
...policy encourages students to actively participate in politics and to become invested in issues that affect the world outside Harvard. If a new funding policy excluded activities such as protests, the IOP would miss an opportunity to let Harvard students do more than just learn about politics on an abstract level. Encouraging collective action is one of many valuable ways to combat the apathy that is common not only among students here and at other colleges, but among a whole generation of American youth...
Each week, 45-year-old Gaudet speaks with his client for a few hours on the phone, helping them to form concrete plans for achieving abstract goals. He says, “Coaching is very experimental. I try to get people from where they are to where they want to be.” Gaudet continues, “It’s like being in a lab—sometimes you get a cure for cancer and sometimes you get glop. It’s okay, you just try something else...
...director Rachel D. Galper ’05—knew well the jaded Harvard world that they were up against. In her program notes, Rubins talked about the challenge of “justifying the production of a traditional musical amid an undergraduate scene primarily dominated by abstract, extra-‘artsy’ shows...
...deep crimson red of four of the five murals had faded to blue-purple at best, and in the case of Panel Five, nicknamed “the nude,” its flesh-colored abstract figure on a red background had become a white figure against a gray-blue ground...