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...ball evoke a voyeuristic glimpse into the lives of unknown people in the “American Professional Photographers Collection.” Older prints from Barger Studio, Bachrach Studio and Joe Steinmetz’s series on middle-class life archive leisure in unflattering and often awkward photos that are both amusing and relatable, like the best reality TV. News media meets still photography in the “Fine Art Photographers Collection” on the back wall of the gallery. It creates a crescendo across the wall of color and technical advancements in print-making...
...Peasants are increasingly trying to protect their rights through the courts or other institutions. Occasionally they win lawsuits, recall elected officials or win support from higher authorities. Mostly, they lose, dashing expectations that the poor can get justice in modern China. This instability puts Beijing in an awkward position. China's leaders speak of "serving the people" and "building a harmonious society." But Beijing also sees clearly that the survival of its regime depends on the local governments maintaining stability and order. Without that, who is left to protect the Party's kingdom...
...naturally. This is the man who lauded the power of the stereo serenade in “Say Anything,” the director who glorified the car sing-along in “Jerry Maguire,” the inspiration behind a 15-year-old’s awkward loss of virginity in “Almost Famous.” “The personal stuff tends to be the thing people come up to me later and say, ‘Thank you for putting that in a movie. It feels like it is from my life...
...Center for American Political Studies gets a fourth floor perch, while—for example—the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies sits just one story above street level. Out in the garden, stout little glass pyramid nudges its way between two wooden houses. A rather awkward allusion to I.M. Pei’s glass pyramid at the Louvre, this skylight is only further ridiculed by the nearby presence of another much more elegant asymmetrical glass pyramid also designed by Cobb. But this is precisely what Cobb’s entire paradoxical building is like: graceful...
...Loker pub to display a classic Harvard aesthetic, with taxidermied animals mounted on dark wood walls. The Eliot House common room had a big-screen high-definition television, a bar, a large neon beer sign, and several girls dressed in ’80’s mod.A few awkward moments later, the older architect was talking to one of these girls. “I’m so bored right now,” she told him, eyes fluttering upward as she spoke very close to his face. “It’s time...