Word: drawn
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...medical evidence for many of these diets is flimsy, but you can find an expert somewhere to support almost every one. Though Atkins' high-fat regimen has drawn widespread criticism in the medical community, it has vocal adherents as well. Dennis Gage, an endocrinologist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, immediately takes his patients off relatively nutrient-poor pastas and white breads. Like many of the diet gurus, he argues that naysayers are using outdated science. "Some of the registered dietitians trained the old-fashioned way, saying you have to have 50% carbohydrates. The government is always behind...
...Kris Gauksheim '01 and Adam Beaver '00 play the timpani in the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra. I spoke with both of them before a rehearsal earlier this week. They started studying the timpani in grade school. Neither of them said exactly why they were first drawn to the instrument, but they both agree that there is a sort of adrenaline rush associated with the timpani's wildly expansive dynamic range. Beaver points out that he gets to play everything from the gentle, dying heartbeat in a requiem to great, rolling sforzandos where he "comes in like the hand...
...Princess Mononoke, for example, Ashitaka, the future leader of an Emishi village, defends his village from a Tartari Gemi, an enormous creature covered with snakelike tentacles that destroys everything in its path. No creature shop in Hollywood today could create a Tartari Gemi as convincingly weird as that drawn by Shinji Otsuka, Hiroshi Shimizu, and the other animators. To hear a low, gravelly human voice issue from the monster is almost as frighteningly intriguing as his words: "Filthy humans. Know my pain and hatred...
...enables Miyazaki to use an incredibly large cast, including a forest full of spirits that bear a remarkable resemblance to the ubiquitous slanty-eyed alien, but whose chubby cuteness is endearing. Sweeping vistas of mountains, forested and deforested, are perfectly rendered, making it easy to forget that they were drawn. In the hands of a director as talented as Miyazaki animation can create a vivid dream world that engages the viewer completely...
...outside Cairo.) Notably weak, however, is the spare 20th century collection. Nov. 14-Feb. 6, 2000: "Pharaohs of the Sun: Akhenaten, Nefertiti, Tutankhamen," Nov. 18-Jan. 17, 2000: "Susan Rothenberg: Paintings from the Nineties," Nov. 24-April. 30: "View From Above: The Photographs of Bradford Washburn," through Nov. 27: "Drawn to Design," through Nov 28: "Joel Shapiro," through Jan. 13: "Secret Gardens: 'Paisley' Motifs from Kashmir to Europe," through Jan. 17, 2000: "Martin Johnson Heade" through Feb. 2, 2000: "Contemporary Photographs: Other Dimensions" through April 12, 2000; "Ebru: Contemporary Marbling by Feridyn Ozgoren...