Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mergel's and Williams' sculptures along with silly-putty blobs (caught moving in hasty Polaroids) by Nick C. Malis '99, a tortuous Frankenstein prosthetic (Brendan K. Greaves '00) and Chris Cooper's redolent beeswax objects all demand anthropomorphic descriptions and at the same time frustrate our search for easy bodily correspondences. While these works may benefit from the exhibition's exclusion of more polished paintings on canvas, they characterize the most intelligent and competent group of student sculpture recently shown in the Carpenter Center...
...them because most are too apathetic to be receptive and others will secretly rejoice in the opportunity to so subtly rebel against repressive liberal forces. While the significance of Harvard's boycott will be lost--and cannot be recovered by merely reducing the quantity of grapes ordered by reducing demand--we should stick to our point and forego the grapes...
...students concerned about labor issues, agreeing to forgo grapes on the likely premise that worker conditions had not yet improved sufficiently in California's fields? Or would we subscribe to the Coalition's claims that grape-pickers were doing just fine and, assuming the protesters were misguided reactionaries, demand our grapes...
...Rice learned that there was no fine dining in the area, and that cooking well for guests meant packing in provisions from Cincinnati or Columbus. When Dahl went to the local grocery and asked for pasta, she was directed to a shelf of boxed macaroni and cheese. (Demand has since improved the selection.) When she asked for arugula, she was told to grow it. That had been her plan, but first she and Rice had a few things to learn about horticulture...
...Asian demand for American goods has started to slacken. And don't expect many Asian leaders to have the political stomach to open their own markets much further in this time of crisis, especially now that the U.S. Congress has rebuffed President Clinton on fast-track trade legislation...