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...common element in her newer works, Wong chooses to depict many replicas of her own figure in order to represent all of the layers of the self that can be explored. Rather than exclude the viewer from the artist, Wong’s technique manages to draw in the public and encourages them to empathize with her experiences through her work...
McCarthy certainly has promise. The Hot Her was filled with strong characters and an exciting plot of murder, lust and repressed lesbianism (always a good element). Kayla Y. Rosen ’04, as Atalanta, drew us in with her melancholy beauty and makes us understand her world—her hobby is seducing men and then killing them. As Orion, John Dewis managed to convey the brash arrogance which characterizes the Greek gods, even while wearing a ridiculous track suit (for running the race...
There is, of course, a communicative element to creative work: when we have finished our stories or columns (or paintings or songs), we send them to The Crimson, hang them on the wall, recite them out loud, so that our creations, our documented impressions, can become shared experiences. Even so, the ability to communicate rests more on the works themselves than with the effort that we put into them. Whether one of my written pieces delivers meaning concerns the piece itself, not all the work I employ in finding a message and trying to express...
...self-referential lyrics, an attempt to analyze the efforts of your average indie rocker, are mostly successful. It’s the sort of album Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst would be writing if girls didn’t keep destroying him. The disc’s strongest element is its assonant buried melodies, formed by a rather unsettling mash of orchestral gestures and bloated guitar blasts...
...beside the creative chants, pep band tunes and unbridled puck mania that will surely envelop the sellout crowd—-announced at 3,836, though it will feel like twice that—there will be one element conspicuously absent...