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Skill, once demonstrated, could be elegantly volatilized. Edo taste valued the unfinished, the rough. One of the masters of the pictorial throwaway line was Ogata Kenzan, best known as a potter. He and his more famous brother Ogata Korin--whose paintings mark the apotheosis of lyrical, erudite Edo painting--left...
Rising like Aphrodite from the sea, one or two songs from film soundtracks inevitably surface as a particular season's Love Song. Be it sentimental (Aerosmith's "I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing" from Armageddon), bitter and/or vengeful (Mary J. Blige's "I'm Not Gonna Cry" from Waiting...
Musically, the Goo Dolls are your run-of-the-mill mainstream alternative band. Nothing extraordinary is done here in the way of instrumentation, and most songs are similar in their construction and execution--verse, verse, bridge, verse. "Extra Pale" is a brief flash of distinction in the obscurity created by...
The following seniors were awarded HoopesPrizes: Lucy Bisognano '98, Gopal Garuda '98,Sarah E. Jackson '98, Abhinav Seth '98, Nara C.Sun '98 and Bradley L. Whitman '98, all of AdamsHouse; Jennifer L. Burns '98 of Cabot House;Derrick Ashong '98, Michael S. Cuthbert '98, EhabA. Goldstein '98, Adam J. Levitin...
IRIS CHANG, best-selling author of The Rape of Nanking, last week challenged Japan's ambassador in Washington to a televised debate. The 30-year-old writer threw down the gauntlet after Ambassador Kunihiko Saito described Chang's book, which chronicles Japanese atrocities in China in the 1930s, as "inaccurate...