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...suit him well. His face is expressive but his delivery is awkward. As Susan, Robe resorts to clipped anunciation and a martinet's strut to connvey emotional distance. Despite Robe's best efforts. Susan remains an unplansible caricature of promiscuity and icy reserve. Robe has a much firmer grasp of Susan. Whining, shuffling, and grimacing, Susan amuses an undercurrent of threat...
...last, in 1993, the great import of the African American experience, but not an equal wealth on the Latino and Asian American fronts, that the former should be an academic discipline, while the latter should be relegated to subheadings under other courses. Choi obviously has no grasp of the United States as a dynamic nation with a constantly changing demography. The Census Bureau reports that from 1980 to 1990, the percentage of population growth of Asians in America is 107.8%, and 53% for Hispanics. Even at Harvard, the class of 1996 is nearly 20% Asian American. Education needs...
...pervasive, melancholy tone of dreamy eroticism, metamorphosed into "presences" that would seem monstrous if they weren't essentially benign -- horse-headed women, birdlike deities, masks conflated with breasts but equipped with phallic chins. The second is the persistence of religious motifs that no European artist was likely to grasp but that were of deep significance to Lam -- the symbols of Santeria ceremonies. Why do Lam's women have heads like horses? Not, fundamentally, because of Picasso and Guernica but because in Santeria ceremonies the medium is known as a caballo, a "horse" carrying the spirit...
These days, the Crimson can only hope for better news from the trainer. But as its top wrestlers return to the lineup, Harvard should finally be able to escape Adversity's grasp...
...always be more than the sum of its natural parts. It's a commingling of body and soul, reality and imagination, poetry and phenylethylamine. In our deepest hearts, most of us harbor the hope that love will never fully yield up its secrets, that it will always elude our grasp...