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...drinking cup topped by a bird that rotates and whistles as the liquid is poured into the base. The show ends with a room of Islamic ceramics traced with elegant calligraphy based on mathematical principles of proportion, and gilded and enameled glassware that required sophisticated technology to keep the brilliant colors from running together. Yet for all its treasures, the show never solves the modern puzzle of Arab science: What happened to the openness to ideas, the intellectual ferment, the spirit of innovation that created all these wonderful objects? Perhaps one day soon the Institute of the Arab World...
...Nazis were brilliant with euphemism," Bernstein said...
...shared experience. The dancers onstage repeated this dance of gestures towards the conclusion of the piece. The audience’s personal stake in that dance made seeing its final recapitulation especially poignant, and deepened the sense that evening managed to tackle large concepts and devastating emotions through brilliant artistry. —Staff writer Marin J.D. Orlosky can be reached at orlosky@fas.harvard.edu...
...vicious geography lesson. The euphoria that had attended the fall of the Berlin Wall, the disintegration of communism and the end of the cold war had some seers announcing that amid instant global communications, the ''end of history'' had arrived in the triumph of free-market democracy. But the brilliant moment faded, and left a sinister aftermath. The shadow was evident last week in Russia, where the followers of the fascistically minded Vladimir Zhirinovsky unexpectedly won 23% of the popular vote in the recent parliamentary elections and became an ominous new power. Zhirinovsky's ascent looked disturbingly similar in some...
...million died?'' this simple question was asked by the woman sitting behind me at a screening of Schindler's List ((Holocaust, Dec. 13)). In these words lies the reason Steven Spielberg's brilliant film is so very important. Americans are ignorant about the Holocaust, and ignorance leads to denial. I hope Spielberg's film will enable them to view the horrors of the Holocaust almost as if they were experiencing them firsthand. Spielberg is a genius who has made history. Now he is helping preserve...