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...Zakii, however, appears aware of the opposite risk - that of loading his paintings with too much profundity. Across one wall of his rooftop studio is a floor-to-ceiling bookcase stacked with DVDs, many of them the spaghetti westerns that he grew up on as a teenager in the cinema halls of 1970s Johor Bahru. The stark, lonely landscapes of these films have frequently resurfaced on Zakii's canvases. "Art works best when it satisfies the senses," he says, gesturing at the DVDs. "Not the intellect...
Reams have been written on the differences between Islamic and Western societies, but for sheer pithiness, it's hard to beat a quip by my former colleague, a Pakistani scholar of Islamic studies. I'd strolled into his office one day to find him on the floor, at prayer. I left, shutting his door, mortified. Later he cheerfully batted my apologies away. "That's the big difference between us," he said with a shrug. "You Westerners make love in public and pray in private. We Muslims do exactly the reverse...
...Rights and Responsibilities, to deal with incidents like the April 1969 riots that started all the trouble to begin with. And lest we forget the stillborn President’s Emergency Consultative Committee, which was declared to be literally too big (and heavy) to meet on the second floor of University Hall, which had been damaged by the student occupation. It only ever met once...
...with Harvard in negotiating an agreement that allowed the University to construct student housing in the Riverside neighborhood while helping the city address its shortage of affordable housing. Under the deal, Harvard won permission to develop the area near Memorial Drive in exchange for donating 20 percent of the floor area—38 housing units—as moderate income housing. The University also agreed to build a small new park on the drive...
...these doors is absurd in a particular way. One is three feet tall, while another is nine feet tall. A third has ten doorknobs, with only one that works, and the final door pivots around a central pole instead of opening on hinges. Also, the grid pattern on the floor is warped, giving it the general effect of an M.C. Escher painting, according to the assistant director, Julia L. Renaud ’09. “The set overall reflects the unstable or skewed logic of the characters who are inhabiting it,†Pastel says. Animations, designed...