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...FANS' TOP 10 MOMENTS 10. Ryan's 7th no-hitter 9. DiMaggio's 56-game hit streak 7. Ted Williams hits .406 6. Rose passes Cobb for hits 5. Gehrig's farewell speech 4. McGwire and Sosa chase Maris 3. Robinson breaks color barrier 2. Aaron passes Ruth for HRs 1. Ripken becomes Iron...
This year, the class marshal election was marked by intense campaigning. The race included 68 candidates, and in their quest for votes, many of these political ladder climbers sent e-mail pleas to friends, bought ad space in The Crimson and plastered dining halls with color-copied campaign posters. At the close of the race, only eight victors remained— Head Marshal Krishnan N. Subrahmanian, followed by L. Patrick Noonan, Deanna E. Barkett, James C. Coleman, Luke R. Long, Joe S. Linhart, Monique C. James and Harpaul A. Kohli...
...these drawings? We learned to draw with bulky, square crayons, ones that made broad strips of color across the page. We weren’t allowed to draw with outlines, not ever, and every year, the teacher removed the black crayons from each box and replaced them with peach. Some of my black classmates later claimed the exchange was yet another manifestation of the Eurocentric, whitewashed nature of our supposedly alternative and multicultural education...
Imagine a murdered man in the upstairs bedroom and the 8 Women in his life left to decide whodunit. What would they do? Bitch, bitch, bitch--and then break into song. Francois Ozon's color-coordinated catfight assembles eight fabulous femmes (Catherine Deneuve, Ludivine Sagnier, Virginie Ledoyen, Danielle Darrieux, Isabelle Huppert, Firmine Richard, Emmanuelle Beart and Fanny Ardant) for a game of hide-and-shriek, with each star given a guilty secret and a solo chanson. Ozon, the bright hope of French pop cinema (Water Drops on Burning Rocks, Under the Sand), lets the gals get a bit too chatty...
...that inspired Picasso's Guernica, war has long served as a midwife for art. After the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, the ensuing horror found expression in the most traditional Afghan art form?the Oriental rug. Two Afghan tribal groups, the Chahar Aimaq and the Baloch, expanded their color palette and changed their subject matter to reflect the jarring reality that their homeland had become a battlefield. Over the next decade, they produced carpets featuring rocket launchers, machine guns, bombs, and helicopter gunships. In lesser numbers, these carpets are still produced. Collectors describe them as a vital emotional response...