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...says, “because seeing them in their original historical context makes one realize how remarkably he escaped the assumptions that make many of his contemporaries’ work seem dated and conventional.” Be that as it may, Rosseau’s brilliant thoughts are not only amazingly influential—having affected everything from questions of what makes states and institutions legitimate to what form education should take—but still relevant today. I challenge anyone to read “Emile” without seeing the Curricular Review...
...films wouldn’t have seen the light of day without the Weinsteins’ liberal view of what could turn a profit, and several big-budget productions deemed too “off-beat” for most studios were saved by the company’s brilliant financial team-up with Disney (“The English Patient,” “Shakespeare in Love,” “Velvet Goldmine,” etc.).Of course, Harvey didn’t like Todd Haynes’ final cut of the brilliant...
...captured it more powerfully, enthusiastically, lovingly, and faithfully than Adams.And perhaps no one has captured Adams himself as well as the MFA, whose show—on display through December 31, and free to Harvard students—is eye-openingly complete. It’s a brilliant opportunity to meet, re-encounter, and, perhaps, re-judge one of history’s few masters of landscape photography.—Staff writer Anton S. Troianovski can be reached at atroian@fas.harvard.edu...
...everyday clothing. Attending an Oasis/Jet concert, I thought I would make the ultimate ironic move with my “Gangsta” top. Smiling to myself on how clever I was as I walked through the crowd, I suddenly passed a girl wearing the exact same shirt. My brilliant social commentary was mere duplication.Herein lies the problem of the “Attitude” tee (which is how Abercrombie.com categorizes its selection of talkback apparel—need to make clear to the teenies that they are fighting the man with each new phrase). I, like the other...
Detached fingers molded of brilliant orange silicone stretch upwards from amid the gray-brown clutter of Jessica Y. Yin ’01’s sculpture table. “My project is based on the idea of modularity of the body,” Yin, a fourth year Graduate School of Design (GSD) student, explains as she globs more silicone onto several damaged fingers. Her classmates are similarly engaged: Dismembered plaster torsos, a plump balloon-hand dripping silicone, and strangely solitary feet and toes litter the studio floor.Surrounded by severed body parts, the students of VES 130r...