Word: barriers
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Adam Gopnik, a writer for the New Yorker, is exactly right when he says, in an essay in the catalog, that "the theatricality of Avedon's work" is not a barrier to authenticity but rather the path to a different kind of truth, which it reaches by inventing "a set of heightened poetic conventions." Avedon has never been interested in observing the rules of straight photography, in which the most honest picture is one that has been fooled with the least. He crops and retouches; he coaxes the sitter and takes multiple shots until the subject's self-presentation matches...
...because I'm afraid of the cheesy "So. I like what you said about A Doll's House" line either. That'd be fine. I can't talk to her about anything from section because I haven't done any of the reading. A great barrier, no? I think we might get along, too. We have many of the same friends, you see. That's no problem. In fact she lives next door to me in the dorm. I mean, I guess we could always stoop to talking about high school (we went to the same one). But I just...
Although some students manage to break through the TF-student barrier, others don't tamper with it. And while love-lorn students may be frustrated by their unfulfilled longings, they can at least take comfort in the fact that their crush helps to keep them motivated. "Theta", a sophomore, says that she had a very strong crush on her match CA last year. As a result, she ended up going to every section, asking a lot of questions and turning in all her homeworks. "It got a bit ridiculous," she says. "I knew nothing could happen, so at one point...
...article in yesterday's Crimson should have stated that Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League baseball...
Coleman said baseball's racial history has been a mixed one. He said the years of segregation in baseball before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in 1948 demonstrated blatant racism, but noted that Robinson began playing seven years before Brown v. Board of Education and 16 years before the Civil Rights...