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...Pigott was required to make pilgrimages to the rooms of European painting at the NGV, but this "very young 19-year-old in a dirndl skirt," as she later wrote, preferred the road less traveled. En route she would find herself spending hours with the gallery's collections of ancient Chinese and Korean ceramics. In the green celadon glaze of a Koryo Dynasty bowl or the elliptical lid of a Song court vessel, she found pieces of perfection - and the source of her art. It's a discovery wonderfully echoed in the show: to approach the retrospective you must first...
...This ancient favorite is quickly becoming part of the “fossil record” of Harvard undergraduate course history. The course is being offered for the fourth time this spring, according to Professor of Biology and Geology Charles R. Marshall, who wrote in an e-mail that the fun material—which is “interesting, lively, accessible, and not too complex for non-majors”—is a large factor in its continuing appeal. “Dinosaurs” also provides students the opportunity to place the scenes of Jurassic Park...
...wouldn't if you paid them. She joined an all-male bowling league. She ordered lap dances at strip clubs. She went on an Iron John--style men's retreat. She even spent three weeks in a Catholic monastery, in which she found that the ancient question "Ginger or Mary Ann?" was still being debated...
...other big Kuiper Belt objects have to be added to the list. But in any case, these lumps of ice haven't melted since the origin of the Solar System some 4.4 billion years ago, and so, unlike the closer planets, they are a geochemical snapshot of the ancient past, which can tell astronomers an enormous amount about where we came from...
...Obviously, Jill is not a ?guest? in the ordinary sense, but many Iraqis have told me that anybody who shares a roof with them - even a mortal enemy - is covered by the ancient desert code of hospitality. This is not a fanciful notion: I have myself been protected by the code in situations where my interlocutors might otherwise have wanted to do me harm...