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...last December, Yasser Hamdi heard a British journalist ask, "Where are you from?" Hamdi, who appeared upbeat even after six days in that besieged sewer, chirped up immediately. "Baton Rouge," he said. Just hearing a response surprised Neil Syson, a reporter for the Sun, a London tabloid. But the actual words floored him. "Louisiana?" someone asked incredulously. "Do you know it?" replied Hamdi...
...from innocent mages. Given a few-well chosen cues, your mind supplied the rest. The fact is, I wouldn’t trade the text boxes, even for stellar acting. Playing was a perfect combination of reading a book, watching a movie, and, to a lesser extent, playing an actual video game...
Reactions to the actual substance of Marcus’ novel will generally fall into one of two categories. Some readers will laud it for its inventiveness, its willingness to take risks with the ways we normally think about words and emotions and its eagerness to push the boundaries of language. “I was interested in taking these modes of suppression against women, like silence and stillness, and turning them into elective powers,” said Marcus. “I wanted to take the affliction of silence and turn it into a power.” This...
...concerns led to photographs of demarcated and measured spatial segments (with their numeric lengths inserted into the scene) in the interior three-dimensional environment of rooms. Bochner became increasingly interested in the representation of scale in a photograph and began developing images of a 12-inch measurement printed to actual size, so that the entire picture was necessarily life-size. At this point, Bochner felt that he had achieved the total deconstruction of photography because the life-size image was exactly as the real-life scene had existed, in which case the photograph was a superfluous and redundant ornament...
...Time travel. Social opportunities for Harvard chemistry grad students. What has previously been relegated to fiction is being pursued by academics across the country—and right here at Harvard. Physics inspires student musicals and limericks; wily monkeys outwit undergrads; a Harvard professor demonstrates that hypnosis is an actual state of mind...