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...less palatable display of dissent, the College was exposed to the bare bodies of bold protesters in the Square. This March, a group of daring demonstrators for the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) shed their inhibitions and stripped down for their cause. The rally spurred much criticism, as it was a display viewed by many as a perpetuation of PETA’s penchant for shock tactics. Though it’s difficult to denounce students for taking part in a protest, the PETA incident wasn’t worthy of undergraduates’ time. Students must...
...through the earth with their bare hands in search of loved ones. Survivors were few. "My family is gone and my house is gone too," said 40-year-old Rosin Madombe, whose two small children drowned before she could get them out of her now-submerged house. "What am I supposed to do?" With hurricane season only a few months off, relief organizations rushed to assist the poorest country in the western hemisphere. "A few months ago we couldn't move because of security," said Guy Gavreau of the U.N. World Food Program. "Now we can't move because...
...city's finest tea parlor is a classy joint where executives come to impress clients and contacts with China's most exclusive brews. Its imposing wooden gateway (200 years old and transported to Shanghai from culturally rich Shanxi province) is the prelude to an interior of stone reliefs and bare brickwork infused with plenty of upscale nostalgia...
Though the original Minimalists didn't think of themselves as a school, to outsiders they always looked like one. Andre's steel plates and piles of bricks, Donald Judd's Plexiglas and wooden boxes, Robert Morris' big plywood L shapes, Dan Flavin's bare fluorescent light tubes, Frank Stella's pinstriped canvases--they all flowed from a shared premise. As much as possible, the art object should be based on a single form that announces itself all at once or on a repeated form that produces a similar effect. It should not involve varied surfaces or a balance of different...
...process is about political deal-making...if we just gloss over and do the bare minimum, that’s not going to go,” Dahroug said...