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...Harvard student who doesn’t get straight A’s, I am still very happy with my academic experience here. I try keep to keep things in perspective, and learn for learning’s sake. After all, written above the gate entering Harvard Yard is the phrase “Enter to grow in wisdom,” not “Enter to get easy A’s and a kick-ass job after you graduate.” I may not have aced all of my classes, but I am confident that...
...rocked an affluent shopping district in a Sunni Muslim part of Beirut. The fighting quickly became the worst incident of internal violence in Lebanon since its long and bitter civil war ended in 1990. A cease-fire was arranged on Tuesday, allowing a convoy of six U.N. trucks to enter the camp to deliver food, water and medical supplies. But the convoy was struck by several mortar rounds while unloading its emergency provisions; although none of the crew were harmed, three vehicles were damaged and had to be abandoned. By the next morning, thousands of refugees had taken advantage...
...spectacularly. In the mid-'90s, with a series called Torqued Ellipses, Serra arrived at the intricate configurations of space that are the great discovery at the heart of all his recent work. The ellipses were steel plates, 13-ft. high, that had been formed into twisted ovals you could enter through a gap on one side. With these Serra wasn't merely addressing space; he was creating space of a new kind. Literally new. At one point Serra and his attorney thought of having the form trademarked. "We dropped the idea," he says, "but we knew we had come upon...
Working his way through the possibilities of the ellipses has led Serra to other forms--to spirals, bullhorn shapes and long rippling bands, each of them yielding new spatial experiences. You don't just look at or around any of them. You enter them as you would a temple and absorb them by moving through them. Though he does nothing to produce deliberate surface effects on the steel, in the course of being forged and bent at high temperature, and of being left out afterward in the rain, the plates are marked with stress patterns, splatter stains and long shallow...
Which is fine with him. "If work is rich enough, then its meaning doesn't have to be tacked down to a one-liner," he says. "People can move into it in a lot of different ways." So to enter and circulate within the distorted bowl of his Torqued Ellipse IV is to find yourself inside a resolutely abstract geometric volume that is also somehow a womb, a crater, an inlet and a chamber. By its powerful address to both the body and the subconscious, it sets in motion some very deep mental reflexes, including the ones having...