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...Professor of Cell Biology Junying Yuan. The academy also honored 24 foreign citizens as honorary members. The procession was preceded by brief lectures by selected new inductees. One inductee, Center for Brain Science Director Joshua R. Sanes, noticed some conspicuous absences among the new fellows, from filmmaker Spike Lee to Vice President Al Gore ’69. “It’s a shame,” Sanes said. “My daughter was going to come up from college to see [chef] Alice Waters,” he added. Sanes, who is also Professor...
...reprisal, their political convictions, as extreme as they may be. And, in Cambridge, one has only to wander the Square on a seasonable afternoon to witness the excessive exercise of that right. Yet the difference between the La Rouche representatives or the parading union activists and Columbia University president Lee Bollinger—beside the Ph.D.—is that the affectionately-termed “Cambridge crazies” are not subsidized by American taxpayers. That is, unless they are on the dole as well...
...cloaked in the finest material, but it is also drowning beneath the folds. While audiences will be captivated by the film’s languid, shadowy images and tortured characters, the overall effect is diluted by excessive length (158 minutes) and lack of development. Taiwanese director Ang Lee, known for “Brokeback Mountain” and “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” adapts Chinese author Eileen Chang’s eponymous short story with exquisite artistic balance, but the film’s visual density simply cannot compensate for its paucity elsewhere...
...Matters,” on display at Boston College’s McMullen Museum of Art though Dec. 9, is a romance as much as it is a mystery.Bringing to light the story of a friendship between four artists, paired into two married couples—Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner, and Herbert and Mercedes Matter—the show illustrates the intersection of their lives through letters, paintings, and photographs, a wide-ranging collection of relics that fit together like a jigsaw puzzle.Of course, it’s the show’s overarching whodunit—the still...
Will the lure of forbidden fruit get the mass audience into a Chinese political drama? Lee isn't sure that people's desire to see the scenes that garnered the NC-17 rating will help. "That's a plus," he told TIME, "but the plus is 10 points, and the minus is 80 points...