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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...once flashy city has become drab. The grass and trees, marinated for weeks in saltwater, are a dreary gray-brown. Parking lots look like drought-starved lake beds, with cracks in the mud. Within a few hours, anyone working outside is covered in a fine layer of grit. The trees that gave New Orleans such character--the centuries-old live oaks with their grand canopies and graceful lines--are toppled, exposing huge root balls 10 ft. or more in diameter. It's all the more surreal because the Garden District, which survived the flood, is lush and beautiful once again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Orleans Today: It's Worse Than You Think | 11/20/2005 | See Source »

...been 60 years since Wyndol Gray ’46, who played a season with the Boston Celtics, captained that Crimson squad to a bid in the Big Dance. Few teams in that span have had as good a chance as this Harvard squad to end that drought...

Author: By Michael R. James, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HARVARD BASKETBALL 2005-06: One Last Chance To Reverse History | 11/18/2005 | See Source »

...expect from Adams.But a few of these pictures, unknown to all but the most resourceful Adams admirers, are startlingly successful. “From Moose Pass, Canadian Rockies, 1928,” is one of them—incredibly soft, small, composed of only a handful of shades of gray, and lacking detail, it’s the opposite of what people often think of as an Adams print. Yet it conveys that same sublime, pristine nature that Adams captured so famously in his later work.This gallery also includes a lot of Adams’ early failures, created...

Author: By Anton S. Troianovski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Picture Perfect Adams Exhibit at MFA | 11/17/2005 | See Source »

Detached fingers molded of brilliant orange silicone stretch upwards from amid the gray-brown clutter of Jessica Y. Yin ’01’s sculpture table. “My project is based on the idea of modularity of the body,” Yin, a fourth year Graduate School of Design (GSD) student, explains as she globs more silicone onto several damaged fingers. Her classmates are similarly engaged: Dismembered plaster torsos, a plump balloon-hand dripping silicone, and strangely solitary feet and toes litter the studio floor.Surrounded by severed body parts, the students of VES 130r...

Author: By Natasha M. Platt, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: VES 130r: Criticality, the Body and "Other" Things | 11/17/2005 | See Source »

Directed by James MangoldTwentieth Century Fox4 1/2 stars1968. Folsom Prison. The walls are gray, the guards are getting worried, and the inmates are pounding the floor with lace-less boots. Onstage, the band is playing a thrumming bass line, glancing nervously at each other. In the back room, Johnny Cash (Joaquin Phoenix) is staring at a table saw. On this day, he will record his hit album, “At Folsom Prison.” Before the show, though, we need to know how he got there.James Mangold’s Cash biopic, “Walk the Line?...

Author: By Alexandra M. Fallows, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Walk the Line | 11/17/2005 | See Source »

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