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...evident. Many of the masterpieces that it houses, particularly Rembrandts’ work, are stunning examples of art’s ability to capture the ephemeral nature of light. At the same time, the museum must constantly fight to protect those same works and their many tapestries from the decay that overexposure to sun will accelerate. In Harvey and Ackroyd’s own work the relationship between the creating, life giving power of light and its destructive aspect is condensed into a shorter span of time. Their work explores the inevitability of time’s passing...

Author: By Lisa Foti-straus, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Gift of Presence: Living Art at the Gardner | 11/9/2001 | See Source »

...what's on the disc and from there it's easy to get to that scene of Uncle Ted splitting his pants at my sister's wedding. For home video buffs the DMR-E20 allows you to easily transfer home videos to disc, saving them from tape's slow decay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DVD Recorders: Not There Yet | 11/5/2001 | See Source »

...Shaw, along with many others. Even this light-hearted romp, though, must end. As the title of the book suggests, the book concludes on a grim note, charging that comedy perished with the advent of what Segal calls the Theater of the Absurd, which was characterized by the decay of language and theme of the meaninglessness of existence. Most of the final chapter is devoted to an analysis of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, which, Segal argues, marked, “the end of the life cycle of genre—the death of comedy...

Author: By Amy W. Lai, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Death of Comedy | 11/2/2001 | See Source »

...questions, allowing him to usher in the rest of the White House staff cast. It's a little like the scene in a kids' dental-hygiene film where the host says, "Now I'm going to get our old pal Mr. Floss to sing us a song about tooth decay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'West Wing': Terrorism 101 | 10/4/2001 | See Source »

Ideally, we would use our newfound solidarity to mobilize the country when we turn back to domestic issues unrelated to the attacks in a few months. However, the likelihood that our government will take any action to halt the decay of our infrastructure and provide for future economic potential is slim. When growth begins again in this country, sometime in the next few years, we’ll see how well our aging infrastructure handles it. Eventually, resources that need to be rebuilt or expanded will be, but if we don’t do anything now, we will have...

Author: By Alex F. Rubalcava, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In Praise of the Big Dig | 10/1/2001 | See Source »

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