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...often provoked by a single key find. In Canyon, 1959, it was a stuffed eagle that had belonged to an old veteran of the Spanish-American War, an emblem of flight and power that Rauschenberg combined with a photo of a small child gesturing upward and another of distant galaxies. Considerately, he supplied the bird with a pillow hanging on a string, in case it crashed. Canyon was the first of a series of allusions to space exploration--the NASA program in the '60s became one of Rauschenberg's main themes...
...take pleasure and meaning from work not only gets you through the day-after-day, year-after-year, but it defines your place on this planet as much as anything short of your kids. Yet movies remain fixed on growing-pains farce and lurid fantasy. A distant civilization, judging earthlings from their popular films, would think we are the creatures who cop feels and catch serial killers. They'd never guess we spend something like half our waking hours at work...
Jennifer Jason Leigh is perfectly cast in Agnieszka Holland's adaptation of Henry James's novel. An awkward young woman starved for affection is caught between a cynical, distant father and a spirited but selfish young suitor. Holland's camera work and sense of period is engaging throughout, and her trademark comic acuity leavens the somber arc of the story. Eventually, though, Leigh asserts herself just long enough to break your heart. Like its heroine, the film misses true magnificence, but its intelligent cast and sensitive storytelling are more than enough to recommend...
...might think that this community would be even more sensitive to mental illness than most given the fact that at least one student, and sometimes more, commits suicide each year. Moreover, the tragedy of the Dunster House murder-suicide is barely more than two years distant, and is still a part of the institutional memory. Perhaps the greatest tragedy is that even after such a conscience-shattering event, little has changed in the life of the University...
Outdoor activity becomes a distant memory when the dark, icy days of December are here. Most Harvard people hole up inside like hibernating bears during the winter, venturing out once in a while to slip and slide their way to class or grab a pizza at Tommy...