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...entire afternoon to wander around Allston, blindingly drunk, in the freezing cold, what’s the point of making the impossibly long trek across the river in the first place? Ec 10 alumni all, undergraduates will doubtless make the only rational choice—skipping the festivities in favor of getting sauced at home...
...giving a tour of Harvard to a group of Japanese girls from Hakuoh High School in Ashikaga, Narumi and her two friends Chika and Mizuki informed me that American students aren’t, well, the best of dressers. They began to list the drab colors Americans seem to favor, and just as I was about to nod my head in agreement, I glanced down at my own clothes and realized I was wearing the exact “grays, blacks, and browns” they had mentioned. As I joined their group picture on the steps of Widener...
...taking a clip of countdown reel as the entire substance of his work “Ten Second Film”—there is a kindness, a sense of nostalgia and good humor that the artist brings to his work that precludes strong criticism or hostility in favor of eccentric homage.Taking imagery into consideration, Conner is obsessed with the female form. The sixteen-minute pseudo-loop piece, 1973’s “Marilyn Times Five,” dwells, as if under hypnosis, on the increasingly nude form of nubile Monroe-doppelganger Arline Hunter. The same...
...years, Le Corbusier, a major modernist architect of the twentieth century, was admired exclusively for his art, biographer Nicholas Fox Weber said last night. But many overlooked his personality in favor of his achievements, he added, addressing a small crowd at the Carpenter Center, the sole building in the U.S. designed by the Swiss native. Sharing anecdotes from the artist’s life, Weber, the author of a newly released biography, sought to introduce the man who was known as Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris before his career took off. “Getting to know...
While the policy objectives of the two candidates are not that different, there are points of major contention. One major clash is strategic: Royal calls for a partnership with centrists to recapture national power, while Aubry rejects that in favor of an opposite lean to hook up with Green, Communist and other leftist parties. The more explosive rub involves style. Aubry is staid and wonky, and she prefers more orthodox-sounding leftist pronouncements. Royal has a high-profile-celebrity quotient and a highly personalized communication style focused on modernity and change, frequently featuring frontal attacks on Sarkozy...