Word: bu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seniors would each have a living room. The extension of the ideal was that sophomores would be similarly accomodated in reasonable proportions, and that ideal did not seem so far-fetched last spring when half of Mather House was found to be empty (or occupied by students from MIT, BU, or the unattached from Twin Falls, Idaho--none of whom had any Harvard affiliation). It was this overabundance of room that led Epps to dedicate himself, in the interest of solvency for a Housing system that lost $700,000 in 1970-71, to "filling every bed at Harvard." His first...
...fifteen-minute glimpses into the lives of Leon, B. N. C. Mitchell, a nice-guy student filmmaker, Steve, a condescending Harvard student, the proprietor of the Citizen Kane Dry Cleaners (whose name is Charlie Kane), two laundry workers named Manny Washington I and II, and into the life of BU student Scott Langer, around whom all these characters (and many more) revolve...
...part of Japanese architectural thought: they occupy a shadow line between architecture and decoration. These delicate panels of rice paper stretched on lacquered frames, held together by paper or leather hinges, were the remote ancestors of today's plebeian room dividers and office partitions. Their name, byōbu, means "protection from wind." From the 7th century, when the first byōbu were introduced from China, the art of screen painting absorbed the best talents in Japan. Perhaps because, being in everyday domestic use, they were more liable to damage than scrolls, there are comparatively few fine examples...
...16th century, screen painting had become as central to the visual culture of traditional Japan as fresco painting was to Italians. The very size of byōbu-which run to a width of twelve feet and more-was an exacting test of the painter's virtuosity in handling watercolor or sumi ink across large areas; it made the paintings into a kind of environment conducive to meditation and withdrawal. Because they were made for domestic use, the imagery of byōbu is generally secular. But Western categories of what is or is not secular make less sense...
...everyday sight into an event of monumental starkness and beauty. Fish Nets alludes to the passage of the seasons by showing reeds at different stages of growth, from spring on the extreme right to winter in the upper left. Elaborate genre subjects occur. A six-fold byōbu by an anonymous 17th century artist (below) shows a house of pleasure -actually, a combination of country club and male brothel-and the diversions it provided: duck shooting, wrestling, dalliance, dance, all set down in minute and ceremonious detail. Fukae Roshū's Pass Through Mount Utsu, with its flattened...