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When Johnny To signed on to direct the wistfully romantic Turn Left Turn Right, the Hong Kong filmmaker knew exactly whom he wanted to play the male lead. In the illustrated novel by Jimmy Liao, from which the new movie is adapted, the protagonist is so estranged from society that he's depicted floating above the city, like a melancholy blimp. When you want someone who practically oozes that kind of ethereal alienation, whom are you going to call...
Edouard Vuillard and Paul Gauguin are an odd couple: one famous for his depictions of drawn-curtain bourgeois interiors, the other for bare-breasted Polynesian reveries. But the link between them is direct. In 1889, Vuillard joined a band of fellow art students who called themselves Les Nabis - "prophets" in Hebrew and Arabic. Their credo was "the simplification of form and the exaltation of color," and their guru was Gauguin. Now, the two artists are sharing the same roof, in a superb pair of exhibits at the Grand Palais that round off a blockbuster fall art season in Paris...
...direct rebuke of the USAFA’s internal inspection, which publicly announced that there was “no systemic acceptance of sexual assault at the Academy,” the independent panel charged that this was merely another attempt to protect Air Force officials when there was a clear, long-standing problem that needed aggressive attention. The report rightly criticized the despicable record that has been ignored by Academy officials. The leadership at the Academy has yet to offer lasting plans to improve the campus environment that is tolerant of these transgressions...
...Boston’s eight major research universities recently released a joint economic impact study, and the numbers are eye-popping: direct employment of over 50,000 people at an average wage of $51,000; $2.5 billion annually in research funding; average construction activity of $850 million per year; and total direct expenditures of nearly $4 billion annually in the metro area. Boston’s universities actually added jobs in the last two years, a claim no other sector can make...
...QRF—a radical group aiming make political statements through direct action—plans to protest events promoting conservative anti-queer politics, as well as BGLTSA events promoting what QRF organizers describe as mainstream gay politics...