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...tell you the name, sculptor, or meaning of any of them and I don’t think most people I know could either.”However, McFadden does believe that there is one statue that’s almost universally known by students: the Chinese dragon stele between Widener Library and Boylston Hall, which was given by Chinese alumni to Harvard in 1936 in recognition of Harvard’s longstanding ties with the country.In reference to its notoriety, McFadden says, “This is probably because it is phallic-looking and people always joke about...

Author: By Andres A. Arguello and Lee ann W. Custer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Covering the Yard's Art | 3/7/2008 | See Source »

...gangsta love poems 2. dragon love poems 3. break-up love poems 4. heartbreaking love poems 5. cheesy love poems 6. dirty love poems 7. one-sided love poems 8. thug love poems 9. love-hate poems 10. jail love poems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looking for Words of Love Online | 2/13/2008 | See Source »

...unnoticed trader thus became a romantic dragon-slayer. A few days ago, he told Agence France Presse, “I never had any personal ambition in this affair. The aim was to earn money for the bank…You lose your sense of the sums involved when you are in this kind of work.…You get a bit carried away...

Author: By Pierpaolo Barbieri | Title: When It Hits the Fan | 2/12/2008 | See Source »

...Harvard halftime show involved beheading and dismembering a bulldog—perhaps not our best or most original idea, but an entertaining one nonetheless—Yale’s effort was downright quizzical. Amidst the nonsense, one thing was clear: Yale was portrayed as a lumbering and sluggish dragon that only felled menacing pterodactyl-like birds when they careened into it. Clearly, the Yale Band agrees that its school is stuck in the Stone Age. And then there was frigid New Haven itself. Yalies may have a shorter route home and a few more days of Thanksgiving break...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Utter Domination | 11/19/2007 | See Source »

...kids aren't likely to parse the fine points of the script's psychology. They and their parents will be wowed by the battle scenes, a nifty sea-monster montage and Beowulf's climactic dogfight with a dragon. No question you lose a little character nuance in "character capture"; they don't look quite real. But the effects scenes look realer, more integrated into the visual fabric, because they meet the traced-over live-action elements halfway. It all suggests that this kind of a moviemaking is more than a stunt. By imagining the distant past so vividly, Zemeckis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beowulf and Grendel — and Grendma | 11/16/2007 | See Source »

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