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...Harvard holiday camp season comes under the auspices of "Summer School Flicks," which is a better title than "Music 2001," certainly, and the less said about "Laugh Riot II" the better. The Science Center is a sterile, nursery, school place to watch a movie, and they tend to bark orders out of loudspeakers about food, tobacco and such things, but the screen is pretty big. The choice of features is a great one, though, back from the good old days when Pauline Kael's proficiency and reputation as grande dame of film criticism was at a higher level than today...
...football fields, just in floorspace. It has three lakes in which you can hardly see the water, there are so many logs and it has a dozen hangars where the finished product is stored. It takes about fifteen minutes for a twenty-foot log to be stripped of its bark, clamped into the peeling machine, and transformed into a few hundred feet of "veneer," one-quarter to one-eighth of an inch thick. The veneer is baked, tested, sewn together if it breaks, doused with glue, and stamped in one of five thirty-foot high presses, the biggest of which...
...studies of the textures and geometry of a man-made environment in which, trees and-bushes and the crumpled, black shadow left behind by an unseen figure are exotic and often witty interlopers. One of his best photographs is a picture of the thick base of a tree, its bark the texture of an elephant's hide, surrounded by the long, slender fronds and serrated edges of various plants. Here Russell's sensitive eye has captured a startling range of tones and textures...
...gray plum tree on the brownish rice paper is twisty and knuckled with age. Plum trees regenerate themselves each year, and here the new sprouts burst like porcupine quills from the bark. The brush strokes have an extraordinary intensity-not so much delicacy as martial precision: one imagines the brush slashing down and up like a sword as it described the pair of sharply angular branches that project to the left of the tree. And so it probably did; for the painter, Kaihō Yūshō (1533-1615) was the son of a warrior family, raised...
...rope like a corn husk, unwrap as much as you need, cut it off, close the inner layer of straw, retie the bundle. Such packaging uses humble materials with breathtaking panache: witness a bottle for sweet sake from Tokyo, coarse brown earthenware capped with a mottled sheet of bamboo bark and tied with creeper - an ordering of color and texture so fine as to annihilate (by comparison) any drink container now selling in the West, but doomed to extinction because it can only be made by hand...