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...their creations and the organic condition of their materials. However, an exhibit of this sort can only focus on one of these aspects—either internal or external—and the pistachio green walls of the furniture-store showroom set-up lack the ability to portray context. The emphasis on the natural attributes of the raw materials comes through, but it also shortchanges the importance of overall environment that influenced the brothers’ creative process. Arriving in Boston in 1888 to study architecture at MIT, the Greenes eventually found inspiration in their own artistic ambitions and cultural...

Author: By Beryl C.D. Lipton, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: "Greene" Lacks Context | 9/4/2009 | See Source »

...Italy” simply looks like blocks and stripes of rich vibrant colors. Only upon closer examination do the rolling fields of Italy reveal themselves. Faces from around the world punctuate the display of scenic terrains, giving the geometric landscapes a human side and situating them within a larger context. An old Cretan woman framed in her yellow doorway stands alone observing a campaign speech. Young boys solemnly look at the camera while apprenticing at a monastery in central Bhutan. In the village of west Hanoi children poke fun at the camera, while somewhere in the outskirts of Kamapala, Uganda...

Author: By Erika P. Pierson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Photos Show World's Beauty | 9/4/2009 | See Source »

...site also provides more detail and context about recent changes...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Libraries Further Reduce Services | 9/3/2009 | See Source »

...Owen believes "the British government became so deeply embedded in the negotiations [to solve the al-Megrahi problem] that they lost sight of the likely domestic political response and the wider diplomatic context," including the predictable anger of the U.S. A Sept. 1 letter written by Richard LeBaron, deputy chief of mission at the U.S. embassy in London, to authorities in Scotland withholds consent for Washington's "government-to-government" correspondence to be made public but reiterates "the United States Government's consistent and long-standing view that Mr. Megrahi should serve out his prison sentence in Scotland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Documents Reveal British Role in Lockerbie Bomber's Release | 9/2/2009 | See Source »

...deeply critical of U.S. forces have been allowed to embed multiple times. The Rendon Group's media analysis, she went on, was part of a broader one-year, $1.5 million contract to ease some of the workload borne by coalition forces in the country - "perfectly normal" in a wartime context...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Did the Pentagon Blacklist Journalists in Afghanistan? | 9/1/2009 | See Source »

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