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...said that she heard a trickling sound from above, followed by a larger cracking noise moments later...
...Silent films. Once a larger part of TCM programming, mute cinema is now mostly confined to a Sunday-midnight niche - a glorious grotto, whose saints are Lon Chaney, Lillian Gish, John Gilbert, Marion Davies and other stars of MGM silents. The slot also is home to early masterworks from France (Jacques Feyder's Queen of Atlantis), Germany (F.W. Murnau's The Last Laugh) and Sweden (Victor Sjostrom's Phantom Carriage). The country doesn't matter; all these films speak an eloquent visual language...
...researchers and the general public. In recent years, Harvard and other universities have increasingly funneled resources into promoting translational research. Last summer, the University received a $117.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to found the Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center. The center, part of a larger enterprise known as Harvard Catalyst, encourages collaboration among researchers and students throughout the University to understand disease mechanisms and devise new strategies to attack human illness. Bjorn R. Olsen, an HMS cell biology professor and Dean for Research at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, said that translational research...
...Student Art Show is also dedicated to bringing to campus an opportunity to integrate artists into the larger professional arts community. Trying to maximize the exposure to student work, organizers contacted galleries in Boston to personally invite them to the event...
...build on what you are doing. In an outdoor location, however, “You need to catch people’s attention who are walking by.” Commanding a crowd should be a no problem for the group, which Miller describes as often “larger than life.” “I like to try to be hokey, especially for the kids,” Miller says. Accordingly, the tricks performed—cards going blank, disappearing coins and rope tricks—draw from the familiar canon of magic deeds. The mixed...