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...control of robotic movements. It will focus on a discussion about BigDog, a quadruped robot with advanced motor skills that can “walk, run, climb, carry loads, resist kicks, and negotiate rough terrain,” Reid said. “[Rizzi’s] a really famous person in this area, and so I think a lot of people are excited to hear him speak,” Welsh said. The second seminar will be held on Nov. 20, but additional information, such as the issues that Chayes will address, has yet to be released. Reid...
...hour-long reading consisted of Heaney’s older works. Two of the poems Heaney read he composed specifically for Harvard. The first, ‘Alphabets,’ he created for the 1984 Phi Beta Kappa induction ceremony, and is one of his more famous poems. He also read ‘Villanelle,’ which he read for the first time in Tercentenary Theater in honor of Harvard’s 350th anniversary. “I thought, ‘how can anyone possibly hear a poem over the loudspeakers...
...restaurant’s name was being spread through word of mouth. The interview, which was published in 2000, he said, was rewarding and he believed contributed to his restaurant’s reputation. “I am proud, and I am happy when the restaurant got famous,” he said. Lymswam followed his mother and stepfather, an American G.I., to Michigan in 1980, where he attended a community college and studied mechanical engineering. He joined the army for seven years, and after his service moved to Boston for work, where he met Kordsomboon...
...That's the most famous putdown in debate history," Schroeder says. "There's an example of bad preparation...
...visual and psychological, for compressing multiple possibilities into a single sliding form. From a 19th century photograph by Eadweard Muybridge he could take the squatting silhouette of a man and dissolve it within the outlines of a crouching boy attributed to Michelangelo. He could borrow the eyeglasses from a famous shot of a screaming nurse in Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin and perch them on a Pope's nose. In the same way, the meaning of his screaming Pontiff in Head VI fluctuates. Trapped in a kind of isolation booth, where a thunderstorm of granular black strokes rains down...