Word: expression
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...reckless as it is visually dull. With farmland and forests disappearing and water running out, Yu says, cities can't afford be so wasteful: "China needs a dramatic shift. We've misunderstood what it means to be developed. We need to develop a new system, a new vernacular, to express the changing relationship between land and people." When Yu, now 42, returned home in 1997 with a doctorate in design from Harvard and a teaching appointment at Peking University's Architecture Center, landscape design wasn't even an officially recognized profession. The country had a long tradition of private gardens...
Greetings, oh ignorant gender enthusiasts. Take heart, buckle down, and study FM’s fifteen second guide to decoding gender. Sex and gender can be delineated into four discrete categories: biological sex, gender identity, gender expression and sexual orientation. First comes the “full monty,” so to speak— physical genitalia. One’s “biological sex” is determined by the existance of male, female, or ambiguous (in the case of intersex individuals) genitalia. But the equipment granted at birth does not determine one’s personality...
...Beijing this week, Putin and Hu agreed to coordinate their efforts to "solving the Iran nuclear issue through political and diplomatic means." That of course is the express desire of the U.S. and its allies, as well. Which means that if the U.S. is going to be able to enlist Russia and China as partners in solving the Iran nuclear impasse, it may have to heed some of their concerns in other arenas...
...systematic torture in American detention facilities as a scandal that “survived its disclosure.” Danner’s elegant phrase points to the total failure of hierarchal accountability in the wake of revelations of abuse, and it suggests our complicity in this failure. We express our revulsion at the Abu Ghraib photos, while averting our eyes from the paper trail leading conclusively upwards from there. This disconnect—whereby we vilify those who carry out repellent policies while bowing deferentially to those who devise them—was vividly in evidence here at Harvard...
...James Loye, as Frodo, and Peter Howe, as Sam, get the message that heroes are ordinary folk who rise under extraordinary circumstances. In this predominantly Canadian cast, the other main roles are handsomely filled. But the show stealer is Michael Therriault as Gollum. Hissing and squealing, writhing convulsively to express Gollum's two warring psyches (the hobbit he was, the half-life creature his ring lust has made of him), Therriault gives the most virtuoso schizo turn since Steve Martin's half man, half woman...