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...first fashioned it in 1938 in gratifying dark lead - belongs at an airport. But set against the greenery of Kew, his way of conflating the curves of the human body with the swells of landscape is effective again. And his two- and three-part reclining figures, like Reclining Figure: Arch Leg from 1969, with its complicated balance of volume and void, are proof that Moore's gift for forceful, enigmatic forms didn't entirely desert him even in the '60s. He was the opposite of a Baroque sculptor. No corkscrewing flights of form for him. His default mode...
...exercise between these two armies. They fought each other in 1962, and have not exactly warmed to one another in the decades since, for much of which India was close to China's erstwhile communist rival, the Soviet Union, while China has been a reliable ally of India's arch-foe, Pakistan. "The two sides will be like two porcupines facing each other," says Delhi-based security analyst C. Uday Bhaskar, "They have had little contact for 40 years, and a negative perception of the other still prevails, more so, perhaps, on the Indian side...
Richard Rogers' firm is giving Heathrow a big new terminal under a vast, column-free arch...
...academic community to foster this sort of open dialogue and advocate for constructive change, American university students have instead focused their political engagements in ways that promote polarization and demonization, not compromise.“Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week,” a five-day campaign organized by arch-conservative David Horowitz, is the most dramatic example of the disturbing and destructive direction campus activism has taken. Planned as “the biggest conservative campus protest ever,” the anti-Islamic blitz co-opted tactics typically employed by the radical left. During the week of October...
...Saturday night at the Bright Hockey Center, the No. 19 Harvard men’s hockey team’s four-game winning-streak ended just one night after it defeated arch-rival Cornell.Despite jumping out to a 1-0 lead in the second period, the team allowed a power-play goal against the Colgate Raiders (4-6-2, 1-3-2 ECACHL) in the final minute to suffer a 2-1 loss.The Crimson (4-2-0, 4-2-0 ECAC) entered the third period with the lead, but the team failed to take control of the game despite creating...