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...Fauves were followed by the Cubists, led by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, who deconstructed the basic sphere, cylinder, cone and cube that learner artists were set to copy. They broke apart these simple solids to construct ambiguous images that appear to emerge from the canvas or flatten out like a collapsing card-house. Their rather dry theories were gleefully hijacked by others and transformed into still lives, portraits, street and café scenes. Cubist angles form the background to Russian Marc Chagall's Paris through the Window of 1913 and even become a pair of frilly panties in Italian...
It’s not quite the Big Dig, but it has provoked Cambridge city activists who want to block Harvard’s creeping expansion into their neighborhoods. On Wednesday, the Cambridge Planning Board approved Harvard’s proposal to construct a tunnel underneath Cambridge Street that would link the two buildings that will compose the new Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS). The latest skirmish over a tunnel has been another example of Cambridge activists’ knee-jerk disapproval of all Harvard construction, even when the community stands to benefit...
...that it really happened. Scott answers that “once you start writing it all becomes fiction.” The whole of Fiction clocks in at around half an hour, and with the short running time, it suffers from a lack of character development, a wooden plot construct and bland cinematography. The students in the class never become more than voiceboxes for criticism of Solondz’s previous work, and the provocative questions involving Vi and Scott concerning the environment of political correctness in pedagogical relationships and the slippery nature of exploitation only become muddied and lost...
...fighters of al-Qaeda and the Taliban. So, for the moment, the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, remains the "least worst" solution (as Donald Rumsfeld put it) for sequestering the 158 detainees and several hundred more expected to follow. U.S. military engineers have been working overtime to construct temporary housing that is safe, secure and hygienic. The quarters have been outfitted with hot showers, prayer mats, and cells with corrugated tin roofs. Medical care has been provided, along with monitoring visits from the International Red Cross...
...giving up without a fight, Dawson enlists the reluctant Rita Harrison (Pfeiffer, an uptight personal injury lawyer), to represent him at his custody hearing. Harrison’s struggle to construct a compelling argument for Dawson, made more difficult by his continued follies, make the case appear increasingly hopeless. Yet the man’s love for Lucy is unassailable and it seems that this might be the key to getting Lucy back. Dawson’s fatherly devotion certainly makes a strong impression on Harrison, whose relationship with her own son is predictably in tatters. Soon, Harrison is fighting...