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...basic about Harvard students: we’re more-or-less normal. We may be, as a group, a little better-read and a little more socially awkward than college students elsewhere—but, pace popular conceptions of us, we aren’t really very remarkable. The disconnect between imagined Harvard and actual Harvard is uncomfortable even for those who know us best: my brother and my father, for instance, call me “Harvard” (as in, “Nice job, Harvard!”) only when I do something particularly stupid...
...Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) recognizes this untrendy baggage, and so they’re doing something about it. Recognizing an obvious disconnect with much of the younger, hipper population in the Boston area, particularly its large student population, the MFA has begun an innovative outreach program to change students’ perception of the museum, reeling them in with the best hook available: their playlists...
...liked ‘Beat It’ –it’s a good dance song. The trial doesn’t really enter my mind because it seems like there’s a big disconnect between what he was in the eighties and who he is now. I don’t know why people care so much about him now, I guess it just seems so bizarre that it’s drawn people...
Clearly, something is afoot beyond the usual disconnect between critical and popular consensus. Fans of Son of the Mask, for instance, did not think it necessary to mount a massive letter-writing campaign against its disparagers...
Kwon-taek acknowledged the awkward disconnect between his work and much of the audience: “If you are a first time viewer [of my films] it is not strange to perceive them as strange or unfamiliar. But I have tried to provide points of access for you into them.” And indeed he did: the characters that populate his films, in spite of their inhabitation of a distant continent during a remote century, are comprehensible, relatable, and accessible. The HFA should strive to makes its screenings the same...