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...Look. Completed some time in the years before 1815, it depicts a prisoner, his torso draped in cloth, with ropes dangling from his tensed limbs. There is no hood over his head, no box beneath his feet, and what initially appear to be outstretched arms turn out, upon closer inspection, to be tattered folds of cloth. Yet it is almost impossible to look at this small work and not be reminded of the more recent image of a hooded prisoner at Abu Ghraib, an artless photo that testifies with similarly painful eloquence to human brutality in times...
...evoke a trip to the lush gardens of Giverny or Tahiti. Or they could appear to be the result of a completely different kind of psychedelic trip. But to those in the know?designers, fabric-mill owners and trend spotters?the plethora of prints this season summons something much closer to home: Ratti, the fabric and printmaking house based in Como, Italy...
...part of the season. “My shoulder was bothering me in the beginning of the season, but I’ve been working on rehab and I’m feeling a lot healthier now,” Madick says. Either way, the transition from starter to closer to all-around pitcher suits Madick’s mentality well. “I don’t really see myself as a starter or a closer, necessarily,” Madick says. “When Coach asks me for innings, I just throw. Whether it?...
...sailors spent the weekend in Newport, R.I., sailing at the New England Dinghy Championship. The squad’s seventh-place finish earned it a berth in the ICSA Coed Dinghy National Semifinals.Meanwhile, some of the younger members of Harvard’s co-ed team sailed closer to home in the Oberg Trophy, held on the Charles River. The Crimson placed sixth in the 15-team field.The Harvard women competed in the Duplin Trophy, hosted by Boston College, where they also finished sixth overall.NEW ENGLAND DINGHY CHAMPIONSHIPThe Crimson co-ed squad endured thunderstorms, fog, and a false start...
...very small community but that just made everyone in it much closer. The rooms were smaller but it didn’t really affect the quality of living,” Collins said...