Word: abstractions
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...Stephanie Kacoyanis crooned “La Vie en Rose” as women sporting black elbow-length gloves minced through the crowd. It was a chance to unwrap the dry-cleaning plastic from chic dresses. One fashionista wore a fine off-white, cotton-linen dress painted with abstract-expressionistic verve, in warm reds and yellows: the Gucci version of a stained burlap sack. The Fogg’s atrium provided the perfect environment for this tragicomedy (for every bit of farce is mingled with the hardship of wearing last season’s heels). The second-story peristyle provided...
...candlelight vigil because so many sexual assault survivors never talk about what happened to them,” said Sarah A. Rankin, director of the OSAPR. Referring to frequently-used statistics on sexual abuse, she added, “It gives a sort of personal connection to an abstract concept.” Organizers said one of the event’s major objectives was to address the issue of sexual violence on Harvard’s campus. “Even in a community like Harvard, there are survivors of rape, sexual assault, and relationship abuse...
...However, many critics of the Yardfest headliner seemed to offer up their anti-Gavin rhetoric without hearing a single song; instead, they based their dissatisfaction on an abstract sense of wanting someone “more famous,” rather than judging DeGraw on the merit of his music...
...Gonzales probably intended it to be. It’s a fractured, uneven work, with vaguely discernable intentions and vaguely decipherable clues about Gonzales himself lurking somewhere in the crystalline murk. The album, like its titular equation and like Gonzales’ work in general, is abstract and broken, to be enjoyed at a distance, where the somewhat vapid fragments take on a more beautiful, organic form.—Staff writer Ryan J. Meehan can be reached at rmeehan@fas.harvard.edu...
...containing strips as old as “Dennis the Menace” and as new as “The Boondocks”.Those “underground” comics are also a big selling point. In one corner of the store, you can find books of abstract comic art, critically-acclaimed fictional graphic novels, and works of autobiography.The idea of going the extra mile to give information to an interested but uninformed buyer is key to Picnic’s business. “With underground comics, we took a different tack,” Davis says...