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...There are explosions - smoke bombs, meant to shock and disorient - and the riot police charge, striking the protesters with canes. The monks and students fight back, and soon there is the unmistakable crackle of live ammunition - the soldiers are shooting above our heads. The monks dress their wounds and begin their march downtown. Trucks full of soldiers pursue them, watched from the pavement by eerily silent crowds. Near Sule Pagoda, trucks are jeered and pelted with rocks, and the soldiers again open fire over the protesters' heads. But as dusk approaches, the crowds disperse. The shops have been shuttered...
...longtime New York Times critic changed the way people think about architecture. In a characteristically exuberant 1997 article that brought him national attention, he likened Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, to Marilyn Monroe. (The building had a "voluptuous style" and an apparent urge to "let its dress fly up in the air.") Muschamp was 59 and had lung cancer...
...wearing of time. For example, the famous “‘Peplos’ Kore,” (c. 530 B.C.E.), a Greek statue of a young girl, can tell two different stories. In one version, her garment is painted to look like a peplos (a traditional dress worn by daughters of Athenian aristocracy). In another version, her garment is decorated with various animals and monsters, indicating the dress to be a traditional thependytes—a garment appropriate for a goddess. The exhibit also features three models, placed side by side, of “Torso...
...keeping with the legacy of Indian independence, the aura of nationalism that surrounded Mohun Bagan soon faded with the conflicts of partition. The well-heeled Calcuttans who ran Mohun Bagan often discriminated against athletes from the eastern parts of Bengal, whose accents, culinary tastes and even modes of dress differed. A contingent of eastern officials and players broke away from Mohun Bagan and set up the East Bengal club in 1920. The rivalry was ramped up after 1947, when the departing British divided Bengal along religious lines, its east becoming East Pakistan. Millions of Hindu refugees fled west to Kolkata...
...paintings this summer. Hopper is one of the most beloved American painters—probably for his austere but tender portraits of archetypical American life—and his work lends itself more to speculation than to analysis (“Just what is that woman in the red dress doing at that diner so late at night?”). I don’t mean to say that these works don’t reward careful examination, but rather that they don’t require it: it would be hard to imagine the tremendous show of Weimar...