Word: exhibits
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...contrast to Harvard's myriad theatrical productions, concerts and coffee-house-readings, there is a distinct paucity of visual art mounted by students for public display. An anomaly in the Harvard art world, the exhibition of student work by Elizabeth Lakshmi Kanter '99 in Eliot Basement reaches a caliber of aesthetic quality sure to inspire an increase in independent student showings. Comprised of work by six student artists, the intense subject matter of "Departures, Losses, Separations", is well suited to the intimate exhibit space of the basement-turned-gallery...
Lots of people, of course, would like to draw broader conclusions from the study. For instance, does it support the belief that, despite all these inherent errors pointing to destruction, humankind's survival shows it has the capacity to overcome itself and exhibit a spark of the divine? Well, "the study allows one to speculate that we are not so tied to natural selection pressures," Gorman says. "We have the ability to shape our environment." What about the belief that sex is good for you? Since the study shows that the rate of genetic errors is high, "the study supports...
Next week Madame Tussaud's, a company that has been shaping history, so to speak, since 1835, joins us in our endeavor. Madame Tussaud's, the most popular tourist attraction in London, has created a special TIME 100 exhibit featuring the likenesses of figures such as Winston Churchill, Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Pope John Paul II, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the Beatles, Pablo Picasso, Mikhail Gorbachev, Lech Walesa and Oprah Winfrey, all of whom have been named in our TIME 100 issues: Leaders and Revolutionaries (April 13, 1998), Artists and Entertainers (June 8, 1998) and Builders and Titans...
...Exhibit A: A coloring book from the police in Montgomery County, Md., warns children, "You cannot tell if a stranger is dangerous by the way he or she looks. A dangerous stranger could look and act like a very nice person." The accompanying drawing is of four adults who look like the neighbors in an old Dick-and-Jane reader, among them a well-dressed elderly woman...
...Gillot was an etcher with an extremely precise hand, and every line in this satyr funeral has something to say. This is not the only example of lots of patience and a very sharp pencil. Chandeliers, leaves and dress costumes all receive careful attention in various works throughout the exhibit...