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...This is what we mean by late Caravaggio, made under the shadow of his worsening predicaments. Yet in Naples, he produced astonishing canvases like his Crucifixion of St. Andrew. The saint is shown at the moment of his miraculous death, when soldiers attempting to take him down from the cross alive (which would deny him the martyr's death he prayed for) were thwarted when God froze them in a blinding flash of light. Here Caravaggio's sharp illumination is not just a pictorial device; it's God's own light, thrown onto the scene. The mocking figure at lower...
...mainland to declare war if Taiwan declares independence, and days before U.S. President George W. Bush went to Europe and tried to dissuade the E.U. from lifting its 16-year embargo on selling arms to China?arms that would be most useful for invading Taiwan. As a result, the cross-strait chessboard has become more like a game of go: more subtle and unpredictable. "I do think it was a surprise," says Kenneth Lieberthal, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington and former senior director for Asia at the National Security Council. "If you had asked before, most...
Speakers at the rally, which was organized by the American Anti-Slavery group, cited ongoing atrocities in Sudan and also highlighted new cross-campus efforts to fight such crimes, including the recent Senior Gift Plus movement started by Brandon M. Terry ‘05 and Matthew W. Mahan ‘05 on Harvard’s campus...
Like the traditional epic hero, John Constantine’s problems arise from both his own character flaws and the particularly grueling fate allotted him. Since childhood, he has been able to recognize the ghoulish “half-breeds” who, as hybrid demon-human creatures, can cross the border between heaven and hell and upset “the balance” between God and Satan’s bid for human souls. Young Constantine’s terrifying visions classify him as a psychotic, and as the result of the trauma of his visions and equally...
...Pudding Theatricals (HPT) have meticulously prepared a shower of insults. To kick off the opening of its 157th annual musical, “Terms of Frontierment,” the Pudding has invited Robbins here to be mocked, ribbed, joshed—and, finally, to be rewarded with the cross-dressed kisses and golden Pudding Pot which are the true deserts of the oldest student company in the nation’s Man of the Year...