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...gallery has been organized along two axes, crossing the room diagonally. At the end of each, in the corners, are the "four key moments in the workings of objects:" representation, cognition, decoration, and function. The axes themselves radiate from the center as "human form" (towards representation), "mediator's (towards cognition), "vessels" (towards decoration), and "tools" (towards function). These are the basic pillars, it seems of the condition of being an object, and in between the four major "moments" there lies "fetishism, aura, measurement, and embellishment." This might seem like a lot to swallow on a leisurely visit to the Fogg...
However, while Koestenbaum contends that the opera queen is an increasingly rare species in the post Stonewall world, that the tragic campiness of the opera "addict" is dated, he in no way gives the impression that opera serves little function in a sexually open world. Instead, the relationship between song and the listener is put forth as a vastly complex set of responses that touch on all sorts of unexplored ambiguities in the human psyche...
Assistant Professor of Medicine Elliot Israel and Francis Professor of Medicine Jeffrey M. Drazen demonstrated that a drug called zileuton was effective in improving lung function after an asthma attack as well as reducing asthma symptoms over a month-long period...
Sports Illustrated's annual display of female pulchritude is a paean to youthfulness and its endless possibilities. This is consistent with the magazine's essential function, which is to capture and immortalize athletes in their prime...
...scene where the prodigiously endowed and sadistic Kuen rapes and beats his wife. Some of the sex scenes are so over the top that one begins to think that this is an erotic John Woo film. To be sure, some of the situations are so implausible that they really function on a comic level, but as a whole, the violence and brutality are tremendously offputting...