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...appears upon first glance to be in typical art gallery style. The neutral paint, however, belies the fact that this art stinks—literally. Upon rubbing or scratching the walls, visitors are enveloped in the scent of sweat that has been chemically reproduced and infused into paint by Berlin-based Norwegian artist Sissel Tolaas. The work is the first part of a two-part installation called “Sensorium: Embodied Experience, Technology, and Contemporary Art,” running from Oct. 12 to Dec. 31 at MIT. According to the exhibition’s brochure, the artists featured...
...what I call the "carnivalization" of sports events in the '80s and '90s, when fans began dressing in team colors and costumes, and performing dancelike activities like the "wave." Then there are all the festivities that have emerged spontaneously: the Burning Man Festival, the Berlin Love Parade and Halloween as an occasion for grownup revelry. We seem to be impelled, almost instinctively and even in the absence of surviving traditions, to create occasions for communal...
Wilder was born in what is now Poland in 1906. His writing career first began in Berlin in the late 1920s. After writing as a journalist for the German tabloids, Wilder turned to screenplays. During the rise of Hitler, Wilder, who was Jewish, fled from Berlin to Paris. When he left Paris for the United States in 1933, he landed fortuitously in Hollywood...
...Gatess came to that hearing with baggage, having withdrawn his nomination to be CIA director four years earlier because of questions raised about his role in the Iran-contra affair. By 1991, the Berlin Wall had fallen, but Gates's nomination to be the nation's top spy reopened an intense debate that had been festering within U.S. intelligence since the dawn of the Cold War: How big a threat was the Soviet Union...
...prefer chubby men, of course, ideally with a real beard, but we're not picky and take what we get." RENE HEYDECK, director of a Berlin agency that employs Santa Clauses to hand-deliver presents; Heydeck said Berlin faces a shortage of qualified Santas this year