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...that’s our strength.”After Holy Cross’s first possession, which ended in the first of six three-and-outs, Harvard came out firing, as Pizzotti passed on the first six plays, driving down the field for 47 yards. But then, the beast that proved to be a recurring problem for the Crimson offense—the red zone—reared its ugly head.On first and goal at the four, Pizzotti rushed for a loss of two yards. Then a holding penalty moved the ball back to the 16. A short pass...
...that’s out strength.”After Holy Cross’s first possession, which ended in the first of four three-and-outs, Harvard came out firing, as Pizzotti passed on the first six plays, driving down the field for 47 yards. But then, the beast that proved to be a recurring problem for the Crimson offense—the red zone—first reared its ugly head.First and goal at the four, Pizzotti rushed for negative two yards. Then a holding penalty moved the ball back to the 16. A short pass to sophomore...
...head is crowned by a gold Egyptian solar disk. Seen head-on, he's a false idol whose headgear is simultaneously silly and mesmerizing. (Hirst is assuming his buyers know the Bible story about worshipping a false god, just like the one they are about to worship.) But the beast is best seen in profile, the view that leaves you to reconcile as best you can his hieratic gravity with the laugh-out-loud abundance of his genitals. When Hirst is good, he's good, and The Golden Calf is a nimble concoction, designed to all at once beguile, flatter...
...Hogarth meets Stanley Kubrick - work that's part deadpan joke, part dead serious utterance about mortality and decay. The piece that first made him famous, an open-jawed shark in a tank of formaldehyde titled The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, offered a giant beast of prey as a belligerent correlative for a universally suppressed anxiety. A Thousand Years is a large glass box in which real maggots hatch into flies that appear to feed on blood (actually red sugar water) from a severed cow's head, then are killed by an electric bug zapper...
Like Beauty, I found myself carried away by the quiet virtues of the Beast: how the Kindle feels encased in creamy leather, the way the gadget helps me power through a book superfast and how it lets me take my library on a plane...