Word: act
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...Martínez-Sampere and Jordi Domenech, who were born the year before Franco's death. For both of them, marriage is out of the question and careers are important. But, at 33, they are expecting their second son this spring. Becoming parents has been a balancing act for the couple: she is a rising star in the Catalan Socialist Party, and he commutes half the week to his job as an economics professor at the University of York in England. But on a recent Saturday morning in their sunny Barcelona apartment, they have a more modest ambition...
...three men made machines into creepy, modern sex totems, creating metaphors for the sex act out of pistons, wheels and shafts. They plundered popular-?science books for imagery. They were exhibitionists in the pathological sense, having themselves photographed in nutty get-ups: Duchamp with his hair shampoo-lathered into devil-horn shapes or shaved in the form of a star, or dressed up as a woman; Picabia with his bare chest puffed out, posing as a classical god; and Ray in a photographic self-portrait with half a beard...
...light of an upcoming trip to China, University President Drew G. Faust consulted a group of Harvard students who could help acquaint her with the rudiments of Chinese culture: what to expect, how to act, etc. While this was undoubtedly informative, FM came up with a couple more tips we thought she should know. 1) Don’t mention siblings—that’s just rubbing it in. 2) You can tell a lot from toasting: a person of lower status touches the rim of their glass below the rim of a higher-status counterpart. 3) Chinese...
...hearing an affordable, “big-name” artist like Third Eye Blind or spending that same amount of money on several smaller venues. If the College can’t afford a superstar (read: Ludacris), then perhaps it would be better to stop shooting for one-act shows and opt for less famous but more interesting artists. Last spring’s Mates of State concert in the Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub was well-attended and fun, proving that even Harvard students are capable of appreciating good music in an intimate setting. Either...
...system such as Kyoto that lumps a carbon superpower like China in the same category as industrial minnows such as Bangladesh needs to be rethought, as the Bush Administration frequently argues. But step one in that process will require the U.S. to accept its responsibility and act first, taking on binding limits on its own and putting pressure on China and India to follow. With less than a year left in office, it seems increasingly unlikely this Administration will do so - no matter how its officials couch the position...