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...every racial and social minority—aging rockers, young R&B and rap fans, 70s movie fans, gay men, WWF fans/closeted gay men—there are a few good men towards whom they can gravitate. The problem with that strategy is the movie MGM saddled with that burden??the narrative can’t handle the truth...
...Here each moment seems to be of an expanded worth, as is the moment that his stark woodcut portrait squelched into the paper-pulp he chose as medium and soaked up the blackness of intention. As in “I won’t be no beast of burden?? (Avery, woodcut 1999), in the instantaneity of the print is suspended an infinite expression of stillness, sympathy and strength...
...you’re interested in reenacting your favorite scene from “Seabiscuit” by going along at a nice clip down Mass. Ave., you might have to gallop over to the courthouse. Cambridge City ordinance dictates that horses and other “beasts of burden?? are required to maintain a reasonable speed on local roads...
...visas. But even the United Kingdom, one of the world’s wealthiest countries, has announced that it will not be ready to issue biometric visas until mid-2005. By not providing appropriate communication to the international community in advance, the U.S. has essentially imposed an additional bureaucratic burden??acquiring visas—on all potential visitors. The lack of advance warning may have an undesired deterrent effect on trade and tourism...
...first one, the ECAC title, Mazzoleni’s team has received a ringing endorsement—or burden??from among its peers. It came in the form of a poll released on a gray Monday in September. At election time this spring, Harvard will try to turn that into a mandate...