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...does anything that I do have? The way that I’ve started addressing it recently is: what if I can affect the lives of the people who are working on the video with me and then preserve those effects in the final project? This project was a gift from me to Megan, from Meg to me, and also David. I think that what other people get from the film is important but not under my control.” —Staff writer Melanie E. Long can be reached at long2@fas.harvard.edu...
...with the experience of real paper. I hope we refuse to let books become expensive antiques. I hope libraries are always sacred places of knowledge and learning, rather than massively inefficient time capsules. As a side note, if you’re looking to buy a Kindle as a gift, buy it now because it will definitely be sold out around Christmas time.—Staff writer Andrew F. Nunnelly can be reached at nunnelly@fas.harvard.edu...
...social advocacy with old-fashioned dramatic storytelling, two cornerstones of Haney’s approach to film.Though he founded his first start-up, Fuel Tech, when he was an 18-year-old freshman in Straus, his film career took years to begin. His first documentary, “Gift of the Game,” explored U.S.-Cuba relations through baseball and Ernest Hemingway. Later documentaries centered on other social, political, and environmental concerns, covering topics from ocean preservation and whale biology to the Caribbean sugar cane industry.In 2002, Haney was listening to National Public Radio on the drive home...
...first time in his series of paintings from the 1950s that were drawn from the great Velzquez portrait of Pope Innocent X. Flickering white perimeters form a cage for the Pontiff's impotent fury. Why a Pope? With Bacon there's never one answer. His great gift was for visual and psychological conflation, for compressing multiple possibilities into a single sliding form. Trapped in a kind of isolation booth, where a thunderstorm of granular black strokes rains down on him, the screaming Pope in Head VI suggests the baying, baboon madness of authority. (One source for the image...
...just one of three Republicans to support Obama's $789 billion economic-recovery legislation, he cautioned his newfound Democratic colleagues: "I will not be an automatic 60th vote." They don't call him a contrarian for nothing. (Read "GOP Senator Specter's Party Switch Gives Obama a 100-Day Gift...