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...temperature has been rising steadily since the 1970s, with dramatic environmental effects, including more floods, droughts, and wildfires. “It’s very hard to look at this data and say that the surface temperature is not an important factor,” Holdren said. One exhibit focused on rising sea levels, showing that the state of Massachusetts would become partially submerged over time, “a rather sobering prospect,” Holdren said. “[The speech] made me want to vote for Al Gore,” said William R. Rose...
...honor of her inauguration and playing to her academic expertise, University President Drew G. Faust introduced a collection of prints exploring the ramifications of the Civil War at an exhibit in the Fogg Art Museum. The exhibit featured Kara Walker’s reinterpretations of traditional Civil War images in fifteen large-scale prints. She combines lithographic reproductions from Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War with haunting silhouettes of black slaves screenprinted over them. Faust’s appearance at the museum came the day after she announced the creation of a university-wide task force...
...Like their characters, many of these artists took on dual identities, says author and comic book historian Didier Pasamonik, a consultant on the exhibit: "There was a kind of diffused anti-Semitism at the time, and it was better to use a good American commercial name to reach the wider public." Even as Robert Kahn had become Bob Kane and Jacob Kurtzberg worked as Jack Kirby, their superheroes reflected some of the identity they were masking, evoking Jewish concepts such as tikkun olam (repairing the world through social action) and legends such as the Golem of Prague, the medieval superhero...
...Gladiator”) uses quick cuts to and from close-ups of Lucas’ eyes and his surroundings to emphasize the careful analysis of a black man trying to operate in a world where business, crime, and everyday life are synonymous. At times, Lucas needs to exhibit his ruthlessness in order to gain respect. For this reason, “American Gangster” deviates from “The Godfather” by presenting sometimes painfully detailed violence. The opening scene of the movie, for all intents and purposes, shows Lucas and his mentor dousing a man with...
...claims and false analogies, it fails to provide nuance in its central criticism (after calling for more nuance from Catherine MacKinnon). Crucially, it fails to even mention the staggering levels of rape and male violence against women—MacKinnon’s “exhibit A” against pornography...