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This year, Old has had to deal with a great deal of flux in the backfield. The Crimson lost two key defenders to graduation, Michael Lobach ’03 and Old’s former co-captain Michael Cornish ’03. Harvard also lost junior back Jason Andersen to a recent injury. Partly because of that injury and partly for strategic reasons, Harvard has been toying with a 4-4-2 alignment instead of its usual...
This stylelessness is intentional on the firm's part, and Rashid, in particular, scorns architects who return constantly to the same design language. "Architecture is much more complex than a formal statement or a symbolic gesture," he says in Asymptote's book-cum-manifesto, Flux. "What we are most focused on is building inspired worlds, be they domestic, institutional, urban or digital." And in a world where boundaries are blurring, we might need all four at once...
Unlike the work of the red-carpet paparazzi or the clever pests who surprise celebrities in supermarkets, the images that animate the fashion business are works of the imagination. Even when they are designed to look like moments plucked from the flux of the street, they're highly wrought visions crafted by a raft of photographers, stylists, creative directors and retouchers--people whose main goal, apart from satisfying their aesthetic impulses, is to lure your credit card out of your wallet. The art of these dream merchants is ultimately graded against the bottom line, and the high cost of their...
...course, VH1 doesn't make that argument. It's happy to make doobie jokes instead. But if you catch both specials, you begin to realize that the two 1970s were really one: a decade of populism, individualism and social flux when the rules were up for grabs--a situation we can thank for both The Last Picture Show and the leisure suit. Goof or Golden Age? For one week, as was the 1970s mantra of Burger King and Hollywood's auteurs, you can have it your way. --By James Poniewozik
...Harvard sits out the summer, waiting for the flux of students—and network traffic—that the fall will surely bring to the University campus...