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...adopt in the wake of the team’s loss to Sweden. She joked that with one medal of each color she now possessed a complete set. The letdown of not getting a chance to square off against Canada will wear off, the sting of finishing third will fade, but the memories accumulated during her Olympic experience will endure.Ruggiero and five of her Harvard compatriots were afforded the opportunity to participate in winter sports’ seminal event, a global festival of athletics and communication, and women’s hockey, with the signs of growing parity, now promises...
Although I was initially intrigued by the racial politics, the political points about police brutality fade into cardboard cut-outs behind the main plot of Moore’s weeping, unstable mother. Viewers don’t take it any more seriously than the movie does. And the movie does not give the real issues the weight they deserve...
...British art show downstairs can shatter. Displayed along glass cabinets usually reserved for sacred scroll paintings are mere pots of wood-fired clay. But through the alchemy of her kiln, Gwyn Hanssen Pigott has lent these objects a heavenly aura. Before your eyes, her luminous glazes seem to fade to white; porcelain lips quiver. When two Buddhist monks enter the room, they are drawn to the pieces like moths to a flame, which is hardly surprising. If Tasmania's Les Blakebrough is the father of Australian pottery, then Ipswich, Queensland-based Hanssen Pigott, who practices a form of Buddhism...
...other) and the political (one can't help but read the queue of 23 moist-lipped vessels in Exodus II, 1996, as asylum seekers). Other still-life groups simply delight in their play of form (the rising and falling rhythm of Breath, 2000) and color (the enlightening journey of Fade, 2003). Her groups, which the artist keeps carefully documented in photographs, are growing. In 2004, for instance, Hanssen Pigott placed ten trails of 20-odd vessels in a display that curved along a beach in Cornwall, England, with sand, surf and ceramics commingling. Sadly, Caravan hasn't made it into...
...memoir, A Million Little Pieces, Nasdijj's publisher dropped him because of personality conflicts even before the L.A. Weekly story came out. Of course, Frey has sold millions of books and will probably sell a few million more. Nasdijj hasn't sold millions of books, and he will probably fade into obscurity. In response to the L.A. Weekly story, Nasdijj posted a rambling statement on his blog saying that people should pay attention to "real scandals" like poverty...