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Unfortunately, excluding the otherwise limited Picasso and Dali collections, the Reina Sofia Museum did not meet the standard of excellence set by the Prado. Its twentieth century art collection lacked both quantity and quality. In contrast to the Prado, where the walls seemed more a collage of masterpieces than a museum display, the Reina Sofia’s wall space greatly exceeded the necessity for a small, growing collection. Inaugurated only in 1992, the young museum’s disproportions portrayed an atmosphere of scarcity. Indeed, within the context of these imbalances, the majority of the pieces in the museum?...
Facing each other in a tight circle, fingers spread and palms making a sharp crack as they clap, the men of the village of Ianapus tattoo the dark ground with their rhythmic stomping. In contrast to the chaotic rainforest that covers most of their island of Tanna, the surface of the men's dancing ground is bare earth, compacted and smooth from countless years of ritual. Today their strong voices sing here for the success of the yam harvest and the bounty of gardens to come. Young boys, clad like their fathers and uncles only in the nambas, or penis...
...David Sedaris had attracted three or four hundred to the bookstore the previous weekend. ?We moved the podium out to here,? Zack told me as we walked into the events room. Our Red Sox, by contrast, lured a mixed crowd of perhaps twenty on a thick night that promised thunderstorms (the author said by way of explanation). Zack made a gracious introduction, I read a few bits, and then we entered into question-and-answer. We mercifully dealt with Foulke in under five minutes, and then moved on to more substantial things: ?How do you get all those tickets?? ?Down...
...includes the chief political correspondent for The New York Times; a former Texas congressman; the former head of a prominent lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights group; and top advisers to past Clinton and Bush campaigns. Resident fellows must lead weekly study groups open to any Harvard undergraduate. By contrast, IOP fall visiting fellows—not yet announced—only spend part of the semester at Harvard, giving periodic talks related to their interests...
...backlash against American "locusts" in Germany reflects recent wrenching shifts in the way continental Europe does business. Germans in particular have taken pride in their "humane" form of capitalism, characterized by relatively short working hours and high pay, in contrast to what they see as a more cutthroat, competitive American way. But as global competition grows, European firms are under pressure to trim costs. Private-equity transactions--in which investors buy up a company using substantial amounts of debt, overhaul operations, then sell out after a few years--have been common for years in the U.S. and Britain. They used...