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Most people might not consider hours spent in a dark basement a whole lot of fun. Megan L. Buckingham '03, originally a child of sunny Laguna Beach, Calif., now spends a significant portion of her time in the basement-the one under Sever, to be more precise, the home of Harvard's video and film labs. But for Buckingham, who describes her video sub-concentration in Visual and Environmental Studies as "fun" and "something I just love to do," the subterranean hours are worth...
...Buckingham found her way to video after more traditional sculpture and drawing classes at Harvard. She says, "I knew when I came to Harvard that I wanted to do art, [but]...sculpture and drawing just didn't lend themselves to the stories I wanted my work to tell." Video, then, was a natural choice for Buckingham, whose self-professed inability to "think linearly" swayed her away from film, a medium that requires a much more carefully structured approach to creating a cohesive set of images...
...appears to be a single housefly (actually there were several) is photographed at close range navigating the body of a naked woman. Even when the bug inspects the woman's lips, busies itself at her nipple or ventures between her legs, she's as motionless as a guard at Buckingham Palace. Whatever else Fly might be, it's a weirdly absorbing encounter between two forms of life, one a tireless speck of aggressive curiosity, the other a serenely mysterious stretch of pure being...
...Buchanan himself summed up the week's madness in a historical perspective: "Look, people forget these things in a week," he said. He recalled violence outside the Democrats' 1968 convention in Chicago and said, "Compared to that, this is high tea at Buckingham Palace." Adds Choate: "All the publicity is bad because it suggests a certain chaos," he says. "The Reform party's public image was badly hurt this week, but fortunately in American politics most controversies have a half-life of two weeks...
...stay in a psychiatric ward. Life got so blurry, she flushed a 7 1/2-carat diamond down the toilet. But Clooney is back in the game now and takes the reader on a good ride. Why not? She went on one herself that took her from the White House to Buckingham Palace...