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...subculture. Accessible to even those who couldn't care less about art, Seven Days is light-hearted but sociologically acute, allowing us to both laugh at and empathize with those for whom "contemporary art has become a kind of alternative religion." As Thornton writes, "For many art world insiders...concept-driven art is a kind of existential channel through which they bring meaning to their lives. It demands leaps of faith, but it rewards the believer with a sense of consequence...
...President David Kosslyn ’11 explained the concept behind the competition as “having your boss’s boss’s boss in the elevator with you and that’s all the time you have to pitch an idea...
...self-aware. As Collins, Jolie plays a single mother in 1920s Los Angeles who one day returns home to find her son missing. In an exhilarating, Oscar-worthy performance, she moves us to tears, frustration, and terror. “Changeling” moves beyond the heart-rending concept of a mother’s love for her son and soon evolves into a fight for justice and a mysterious case of missing children. The intrigue is heightened by the addition of several unknowns—a psychiatric ward, an LAPD as callous and corrupt as it is lazy...
...runs, lunges, jumps, leaps, you know, things that kids naturally do. But they’re not just doing steps—they’re dancing with a strong sense of inner tension,” Peck says, pausing as she ponders how to best explain this concept. “It’s the connection between my thoughts and my dancing that is the deeply affirming experience that results in this consonance and strengthened sense of self...
...Leave aside McCain’s credentials–his lifetime of service, his bipartisan politics, his ability to rally a party divided, his fierce following in Arizona–and focus on your own. The only concept more ingrained in Harvard students than the election is the vague concept of our mental superiority, our supreme privilege to walk into Harvard classrooms, and our uneasy discomfort with being the “chosen ones.” While we can debate the merits of these claims, let us instead use our mental gifts to choose the right leader for tomorrow...