Word: interwoven
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...expatriate’s return to his Turkish homeland, a suicide epidemic among girls forbidden to wear head scarves, a hamlet cut off from the outside world by a forbidding blizzard, the sensuality of the momentary union of lovers’ hands held underneath a table: such are the interwoven motifs in the captivating imagistic web of “Snow,” the most recent novel of 2006 Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk.Defying genre constraints, “Snow” is, on one hand, a depiction of the contemporary political realities of a country that geographically straddles...
...examines the various artistic representations of the bridge throughout the first half of the 20th century and addresses the question of why the bridge recurs so often in American art and literature. Hart Crane’s 1930 epic poem “The Bridge” is beautifully interwoven with thoughts on the bridge’s multiplicity in perception and representation.Trachtenberg’s array of facts, names, and tidbits is what makes his writing simultaneously insightful and difficult to read. Each of Trachtenberg’s essays is a dense, layered piece that is as much...
...Busch will study the ways in which the fishing economy incorporates community participation at many levels. “There are the people who work on the boats, people who fish, people who cut out the fish, people who make the nets, which brings up this idea of an interwoven community,” he said. Gage, who is pursuing a special concentration in Anthropology and Public Health, said she hopes to use dance and art to improve AIDS education in the Iringa region of Tanzania. “I want to go into Public Health and I feel like...
...overblown concept, suggesting that Schmid’s most renowned film might not be an ideal starting point for American viewers. His 2003 film “Distant Lights” (“Lichter,” screening Saturday, Nov. 18, at 9 p.m.) illustrates the many interwoven threads—including smuggling and romance—connecting the lives of people living on either side of the Polish-German border. Critics have lauded the ensemble cast—featuring both German and Polish actors—and verité-infused cinematography for casting light on the complexity...
...interview with a Russian newspaper last week, the head of the monastery, Archimandrite Aleksy Polikarpov, heralded the agreement with Harvard as a testament to the fact that “the past and the present are interwoven especially tightly in monastery life...