Word: buddha
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Daniel Brenner '85-'86, who spent a year teaching math in a private school, takes a philosophical approach to time off. "You may not come back a buddha or anything, but you come back more confident about school and why you're doing it," says the native New Yorker. "Coming back to Harvard was my decision, and that made being in college more of an active than a passive thing...
Written by the 18th-century playwright Carlo Gozzi, The King Stag is the story of the king of Seredippo, Deramo (Thomas Derrah), who is searching for the woman who will love him for himself and become his deserving queen. With the aid of an animate Buddha statue, Deramo screens all his prospective brides for their honesty...
...another country for terrorist activities. At his Tokyo press conference, Reagan implied that the agreement actually went further. "We didn't think it was perhaps useful," he said, "to put all of that into a public statement telling terrorists exactly what it was we intended to do." Shultz, ordinarily Buddha-like, was downright ebullient. When asked what the agreement would mean to Libya's Muammar Gaddafi, Shultz exclaimed, "The message is: 'You've had it, pal. You are isolated. You are recognized as a terrorist...
...vast canvas has a particular and touching life of his own. Kurosawa gives the last shots of Ran to one of these minor victims of great men's grand designs. A blind youth has lost the flute that was the sole consolation for his affliction and the painting of Buddha that was his talisman. Now he wanders to the edge of a precipice, oblivious of being poised unseeing between life and death. His condition symbolizes for Kurosawa the human condition. The fusion of metaphorical weight and simple beauty in these shots also summarizes Ran's greatness. Outrage has already been...
...video age. When New York's Whitney Museum gave Paik's work a full-scale retrospective in 1982, viewers encountered strange things. There was a battery of television monitors, showing preprogrammed tapes, set behind a bank of aquariums, in which fish swam randomly. There was a statue of Buddha seated before a closed-circuit TV camera and, below that, a small receiver. Gallerygoers could watch an icon contemplate its own image. If Paik's art seems serendipitous, so does his journey to the U.S. His periodically prosperous family was driven out of Seoul in 1950 by the ravages...