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...trio of mutant figures grimace, snarl and bark. In two of them, the most expressive feature is the gaping mouth. What the eyes represent for most painters, the mouth was for Bacon, the locus of human identity. The mouth is what bites, suckles and howls at the moon. By contrast, the eyes in any face painted by him are likely to be missing entirely or smeared shut or obscured by a milky scrim. In Bacon's pictures, the windows of the soul - not that he believed in the soul - always have the curtains drawn...
...event attracting more serious jazz fans that enjoy a more formal, controlled environment. “One’s not better,” Carrington said. “But it draws the people that want to sit down and hear a performance.” In stark contrast, Saturday’s lineup offers different performers on three stages strung along Columbus Ave., a set-up that encourages people to move between shows. Some of the musicians, such as a mixed ensemble of percussionists and vocalists called AfroBrazil, even parade through the crowd. “It?...
...Eventually, SEAS will have about 100 full-time faculty, making it a medium-sized engineering school. By contrast, MIT has about 300 engineering faculty...
...contrast, the New Innovator grant targets young scientists who have received their doctoral degrees in the past 10 years. Four of the 31 in this category, who will receive $1.5 million over five years, are part of the Harvard faculty...
...little I was consuming." Through about eight months, Chameides reckons he's kept a little more than 30 lbs. of trash - most of which dates back to the first couple months of the year, before he got the hang of not taking out the trash. The average American, by contrast, would have passed 1,000 lbs by now. (You can keep track of the trash that Chameides is not throwing out on his blog.) When the year is up, Chameides says he'll probably have to send his collected waste to the landfill and the recycling center, but the simple...