Word: descents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...human, rather than technical, problem with the flight. Especially now that the flight data recorder, recovered earlier in the week, revealed that the plane had been taken off autopilot shortly before the crash -- and that both engines were shut off seconds before the 767 made its final, fatal descent. "Someone on that airplane was trying to make that airplane crash and they succeeded," a former United Airlines pilot with 7,000 hours flight time in 767s told the Associated Press...
Rodolfo N. Cajiri '01, a Bolivian of Japanese, African, Spanish, Native American and Middle Eastern descent, says that people label him as Hispanic despite the many races represented in his background...
...like a fabulous interactive way to share part of the African spirit." Indeed, the gumboot dancers, who meet for two-hour rehearsals every Monday night, reach out to the Harvard community as a whole. Both the troupe of dancers and their audiences include individuals who are not of African descent. Alexander, who is from Zimbabwe, had led the gumboot troupe at her international school before she arrived at Harvard. "After a year without gumboots, I was ready to reimmerse myself in the wonders of the rhythm," she said...
...contemporary artists--Murray Walker, Lilian Tyrrell, Leon Golub, Edward Derwent, Wojciech Jaskolka, and Jorge Pardo--who use the antiquated medium of tapestry-making as a vehicle for social commentary. Although criticisms of modern society is touted as the exhibition's concept, the show in reality places more emphasis on 'descent' rather than 'dissent'--more preoccupied with showcasing the at times overly-forced geneology connecting these modern tapestries with the magnificent tapestries in the permanent Gardner collection...
...good pieces out of six is not the best batting average. Perhaps the best approach to "Threads of Dissent" is not to focus on the pieces themselves, but to trace the descent of tapestry-making from the magnificent Gardner collection to its modern incarnations...