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...their heads. S?bastien Leclerc's 17th century engravings representing a range of emotions face off with an interactive portion of the exhibit in which children can assemble magnetic eyes, ears, noses and mouths on a wall to create faces that make Picasso's Femme au Chapeau (1935) look banal. Says American museumgoer Anne Stetson of her two young daughters: "Typically they last about 15 minutes at one of these exhibitions." One-and-a-half hours later, Stetson's children were still busy turning their own faces into digitized kaleidoscopes on a computer installation. With all its sculpture, video, paintings, death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Heady Experience | 5/15/2006 | See Source »

...heads. Sébastien Leclerc's 17th century engravings representing a range of emotions face off with an interactive portion of the exhibit in which children can assemble magnetic eyes, ears, noses and mouths on a wall to create faces that make Picasso's Femme au Chapeau (1935) look banal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Heady Experience | 5/9/2006 | See Source »

...same time that Saunders pokes fun at such bombastic statements of tautology, and at politicians’ unreflective pieties, he also alludes to the threat of violence that lies just below the surface of so many apparently banal pronouncements in praise of our freedom and values—or, as “Ed” puts it, the human right “to prefer this to that...

Author: By Moira G. Weigel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Weigel Room: Stories Frolic at the Border of Absurdity | 5/3/2006 | See Source »

...start of the film, before 93's takeoff, our knowledge of what is to come bestows a creepy portent, a sad, sick, helpless feeling, to banal intimacies and mundane activities. A simple cell-phone "I love you" holds a lifetime of poignancy; the closing of the plane door is like the sealing of a tomb with live bodies inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let's Roll! Inside the Making of United 93 | 4/9/2006 | See Source »

...idea behind CampusTap is an interesting one. The site seeks to encourage discourse by creating a forum in which Harvardians (many of whom, undeniably, like to hear themselves speak) can expatiate freely on subjects ranging from national politics to more banal questions like ‘Why doesn’t the dining hall serve more red spice chicken...

Author: By Matthew A. Gline | Title: CampusTrap? | 3/14/2006 | See Source »

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