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Entering the museum, one is first greeted by an overabundance of life: Vibrantly green vegetation bursts out of a brilliantly lit four-story courtyard littered, or so it seems, with the remnants of the Roman Empire. A head-less marble statue stands in one corner, a decorated sarcophagus in another. It's as if a piece of the eternal city had been cut out and transferred to Boston. One can only stand and admire. The eye of the visitor is soon also drawn to a long line of people apparently waiting for something very special, visible through...
...richly decorated room of this quaint museum, one is instead greeted inside by white walls and pages upon pages of text by each of the few paintings exhibited. The small room reserved for the special exhibition space seems like another world compared with the elegant colonnades and breath-taking courtyard left behind...
...center stage in the courtyard of the Fogg Museum on Thursday night was an unlikely star: the sickle and hammer of the demised Soviet state. More than three feet high, the ice sculpture heralded the opening of the Harvard Art Museums' newest exhibit, suitably titled in appreciative language, "Building the Collective: Soviet Graphic Design...
...this rate, it is only a matter of time before Tommy's becomes a Pizza Hut and Cardullo's is replaced by a Star Market. A Wal-Mart might soon open in the courtyard of Dunster House. Even specialty stores are at risk; how long will it be before Hubba Hubba is driven out of business by an S&M mega-store...
...only other campus drama experience came just last spring when I joined my house drama society, joining in an excruciatingly painful and drawn-out effort to stage "Jesus Christ Superstar" in the Winthrop courtyard, complete with plans to chain the Jesus to the Winthrop gates as a post-modern cross. Unfortunately, the show never materialized. I figured I had had a rather representative Harvard drama experience, and I retired quickly from my production aspirations...