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...wants it, and so does her rather overbearing father Jack (Alfred Molina) in the staid, lower-middle-class suburb of Twickenham. But Jenny knows that there's more to life than excelling in her courses, swanning and smoking with her girlfriends and lying in her bedroom communing with Juliette Greco records. She needs an education in life studies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Carey Mulligan in An Education: A Star Is Born | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

State administrators say the facilities want to continue justifying the need for detention to retain upstate jobs. But unions point to the case of Renee Greco, a 24-year-old supervisor in a halfway house in western New York, who was clubbed to death while playing cards with some of her charges. Her assailants, ages 17 and 18, have pleaded not guilty to charges of second- and first-degree murder, respectively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Reforming the Juvenile-Justice System Is So Hard | 9/16/2009 | See Source »

Still, for every horror story like that of Renee Greco, there are others like that of Darryl Thompson. A 15-year-old from the Bronx, Thompson died last November at the Tryon boys facility after he pushed a staff member (in anger over being denied recreation time) and was held down in a bathroom by two guards - who together weighed over 400 lb. When Thompson stopped breathing, the guards radioed for medical help but did not administer CPR themselves, as state officials say they are trained and required to do. Though the county medical examiner ruled it a homicide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Reforming the Juvenile-Justice System Is So Hard | 9/16/2009 | See Source »

Inspiration came from unexpected sources. Some sculptors in Sri Lanka and China simply shaped the Buddha in their own likenesses. A 4th century stucco bust unearthed in Afghanistan features the full lips associated with Indian Gupta art, but also fulsome curls that reflect the Greco-Roman artists brought to the region by Alexander the Great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Divine Revelation: Buddhist Sculpture at the V&A | 8/26/2009 | See Source »

...unfinished statues of slaves for the tomb of Pope Julius II also begin to reveal the psychological turmoil of their subject, but this Venetian school takes the artistic display of psychological depth to the next level, with massive canvases of deep emotional power, making possible the work of El Greco and Caravaggio.The exhibition is not arranged by strict chronology but rather thematically, and the most central room is devoted to erotic works (the room is entered past a kitschy cloth of red brocade that is tied back from the entrance by a gold cord). Here, the three artists explored...

Author: By Alexander B. Fabry, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Titian Tintoretto, Vernonese Awe at MFA | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

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