Word: abstraction
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...awful amusements. In their seven films together--of which a terrific trio (Morocco, Blonde Venus and The Devil Is a Woman) are included here--Sternberg swathed Dietrich's wry sexuality in silk, feathers, a gorilla suit and his camera's soft-focus devotion. As his films got more deliriously abstract, she got restless, and the two parted in 1935. Their legacy is these films: a uniquely frilly and profound record of an artist's obsession with his model...
...cave and its health. Lascaux is not an heirloom of French or even Western culture. It is an expression of the earliest experience of being human. The Lascaux discovery in 1940 redefined what was previously known about human beings' creative development and ability to construct image from abstract thought. That critical leap and the resulting tangible evidence are invaluable to understanding global human heritage. Imagine if the great library of Alexandria survived today. How much richer would the world and collective human culture be if we could draw from that vast collection of ancient knowledge? The Lascaux cave...
...useless bureaucracy. “Students will see that this is a do-nothing committee,” said Benjamin W. Milder ’08. “You can’t just say that you’re going to liaise with students in the abstract.” Milder, who serves as the UC’s public relations director, said that a committee designated specifically for outreach sends the message that only a third of the council should be talking to constituents. Other representatives worry that no one would choose to serve on the committee...
...life. This year’s “Adminstrative Board Guide for Students” lists the “resolution of alleged infractions of College rules, breaches of community standards, or other disciplinary matters” as one of its three purposes. By failing to define the abstract notion of “community standards,” however, the Ad Board is presumptuous. Rather than adhering to its intended purpose, namely, to determine the punishment for those actions that fall within a defined discretion, the Ad Board appropriates itself an unacceptably large scope due to its ability...
Jack Megan, director of the OFA, has high words of praise for Yu. “She is operating in a more abstract than representational mode, in a way that is quite different from the mainstream of Harvard art,” he says. Her work, he continues, is “both exceptionally fine and represents an adventure into territory we don’t often...