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...extends to the mental well-being of the patients and staff. The Dell Center's low-rise buildings, linked by courtyards and quiet spaces, are designed to be child-friendly and unintimidating. The gardens will reflect the plant life of the surrounding area, giving the children the comfort of familiar sights. And as everybody knows, there's no color more comforting than green...
...Lambs.” But he also adds subtle layers of complexity to his character. Crawford is more than a cold murderer, and viewers sympathize with him at moments and laugh at his clever retorts at others. At times, his performance is almost too perfect and a bit too familiar, but Hopkins impresses. Gosling holds his own considerably well, though his experience is no match for Hopkins’s. His delivery in the courtroom misses a convincing punch, disappointing for an attorney who is supposed to have a 97 percent conviction rate. The film boasts a strong supporting cast...
...irregularly between mere curio and sublime image. In the poorest cases, the half-photograph, half-paintings are off-kilter, stale, seemingly torn from the pages of a coloring book. Naturalism in “Vanished Kingdoms” is as distant as Tibet: while the colorists may have been familiar with the places the Wulsins visited, the workshop was far, far away from the photographs’ referents. In addition, the slides have degraded in the last three-quarters of a century, and enlarging the slides has exaggerated the somewhat splotchy coloring that makes the otherwise impressive miniaturist painting seem...
Picture a motorized loveseat that bangs against the wall and the floor, as an audio book plays from an attached pair of headphones. Or imagine an opaque, reflective black box made of Plexiglass and engraved with the sort of gibberish characters familiar from incompatibilities in word processing programs. Such pieces of installation art are no longer actually in existence, but images documenting their impermanent lifespan form part of a new exhibit, entitled “That Was Then and This is Now: interventions, installations, and performance art documented.” The showing, affiliated with The Harvard Advocate, will...
...best of their way back to life/ And living people, and things they understand." Yet how strange to pass suddenly from the year-end thrill of a spirited campus to the horror of a mad gunman, to the glare of the global media and to blinking back toward something familiar. "And I don't think it's going to be any less strange anytime soon," says Turnage...