Word: glassing
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...city was once called “pedacito del cielo”—a little piece of heaven. This is not just a nickname, but also seems to refer to the unfulfilled dream of a modernist utopia. Now, slums surround many of the geometric concrete surfaces and glass curtain walls of the mid-century expansion.Alessandro Balteo Yazbeck’s exhibit at the Sert Gallery in the Carpenter Center, titled “Pedacito del Cielo (1998-2008),” tackles the tangled exponents of Latin American geometrical abstraction, from modernist architecture to sculpture to a video...
...Amaker said. “A lot of teams in our league so far have fared better at home, and I hope that we can continue that trend.” The Crimson would likely benefit from fewer turnovers and improved work on the offensive glass, two key components of its game that hurt the team this past weekend. Amaker said he believes that these aspects of Harvard’s game “are the two things that we focus on, we talk about, we teach, we preach,“ but we will have to wait...
...unexpectedly on both native and foreign holidays, take long lunch breaks and confiscate your cell phone at the door. And then they turn you away because you’re one dirham short of the ?70 passport renewal fee. Some of the officials who work there, behind the dreary glass screens, are, no doubt, delightful people. But there’s little they can do: Their job amounts to nothing more than glorified rule-book recital...
...apparently unrelated incident, two paintings by Pablo Picasso were stolen last week from an exhibition of the artist's works in the nearby Pfaffikon. The Horse's Head and the Glass and Jug, both on loan from the Sprengel Museum in Hanover, Germany, are estimated at several million dollars...
...grabbed 15 on the offensive end. “It just seemed like every time a shot went up, it seemed like there were more than five people out there sometimes,” Harris said. “There were just so many people coming to the glass. It’s something we work on in practice every day, and hopefully we can work on it before we see these guys again.”—Staff writer Kevin C. Reyes can be reached at kreyes@fas.harvard.edu...