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...likely that investors will be reluctant to bet on nascent signs of improving credit so long as the housing market remains in turmoil. On Wednesday morning President Obama and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will appear at a high school in Arizona to unveil their new plan to stem the tide of housing foreclosures. The financial community's response to that plan will likely be writ large in the stock market averages by late morning...
...encyclopedia of superstition and folklore notes that, if you look down a well on Valentine’s Day, you may see the face of your sweetheart. In Cambridge, where wells are hard to come by, the vision is likelier to appear in a frigid puddle of slush. There you might catch a glimpse of the distressed face of your date as he or she contemplates the next block’s worth of sidewalk acrobatics...
...home to many people of African descent in recent years. While the multimedia pieces that include the use of paint, fabric, photography, and wood invite the spectator to share in the story it portrays, the portraits are the strong point of the exhibit. In the acrylic portraits the characters appear alive and present without any separation of distance or time. The placard accompanying the exhibit says that Elswick wants the work to inspire us to make connections between our ancestors and ourselves, between one culture and another, between the community and the individual.” The engaging portraits encourage...
...this piece emulates the medium of painting.“This film is supposed to be like an abstract impressionist painting,” Jacobs said. “Yet, it doesn’t superficially imitate it.” Another inspiration is his wife, Flo, who also appeared with him at Harvard last weekend. Flo is Jacobs’ creative partner, and he accredited much of his current success to her help. “She’s my star—even when she doesn’t appear,” mused Jacobs with...
...sees,” he says. “Vilnius Poker” is reluctant to disclose itself. Gavelis leaves the reader to comb through its cryptic geographies—not unlike Vargalas’ own task—for elusive traces of truth that, when lined up, still appear mismatched. The hunt is a fascinating one, and winds through a phantasmagoric suspension of reality that tumbles along chaotically in one moment only to freeze in the next. This halting flow is a product of Gavelis’ own vivid and organic style, which takes a simultaneously sexualized and ebullient...