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...name poetically suggests ("21_21" was devised to convey a visual ability that goes beyond mere 20/20), Design Sight intends to be forward-looking if not avant-garde. Its first exhibition-organized by Fukasawa and running until July 29-involves 30 designers, the majority Japanese, responding to the theme of chocolate (the next show is planned along the theme of water). The results are a toothsome twist on product design and consumer desire. The artist HIMAA has made a chocolate key with a bite mark that turns the lock; the design team of Kouhei Okamoto and Toshitaka Nakamura, professionally known...
Since then, Paravicini has mastered everything from classical to pop to avant-garde, but he always comes back to jazz. His conversation is still limited; in an interview over tea at Ockelford's London home, he mostly just repeats what's said to him, albeit with the confidence of a man who thought of it himself. Talk to him about music, though, and he opens up, asking: "What would you like me to play?" and "Did you enjoy that piece?" Music is the only language he's fluent in, and jazz, with the freedom it gives him to improvise, helps...
...should include such measures.Perhaps the most practical and most prudent proposal for general education is in fact a simple distribution requirement. Let us jettison the passé “modes of inquiry” bequeathed to us by the Core, as well as the now-rendered-meaningless avant-garde “global” citizen General Education proposal. Instead, the Faculty should institute a few broad categories in which all general education requirements can subsist. Notably, some faculty members rejected such a system when the original committees charged with conducting a review of Harvard’s general...
...seems like a guy you could meet on the street, not a monument cast in bronze. This is the lifelong iconoclast who dropped out of school at 15, stole the books he read, attended poetry readings only to shout down those he disdained, and led an outlaw band of avant-garde poets. This is the life he idealizes in “The Savage Detectives.” The semi-autobiographical novel begins with a series of journal entries by Juan García Madero, a 17-year-old law school dropout who falls in with a group of poets...
...there any niggers here? ... Seven niggers, six spics, five Micks, four kikes, three guineas and one Wop." LENNY BRUCE, as part of his routine in the '60s AFTERMATH: Bruce was considered avant-garde rather than hateful. OUTRAGE FACTOR...