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...competitors by about half. Some of the dances went through four sets of cuts to reach the six-couple finals. “What I’m looking for is a good pairing, how they handle a blunder, and energy on the floor,” said Lisa Perry, one of the seven judges of the event. “Otherwise you’re going to get bored,” Competitors in successive rounds increased in skill, and the area beyond the floor was an unceasing flurry of anxiety, cheering, and preparation. In the center...
...Leonardo Loved Freaks Art researchers are trying harder than ever to unravel the enigma of the Mona Lisa's beauty [Oct. 9]. But Leonardo da Vinci was just as interested in capturing the grotesque, as TIME reported in its Feb. 3, 2003, issue...
...look at his numerous drawings of horribly, freakishly ugly old people ... LEONARDO'S PECULIAR AND SADISTIC IMAGINATION IS AT A BIG REMOVE FROM OURS. He is saying, Idealize as much as you want, but shun denial. The necessary other side of the ideal beauty of Leonardo's Mona Lisa or Cecilia Gallerani was the ugliness of his grotesqueries-an ugliness that disintegrates all possibility of desire and has something mockingly demonic, not just medical, about it. To see his grotesques as the mere play of a mind tinged with sadism is to misunderstand them. They are an essential part...
...first annual FAS report on diversity, represents an anomaly or the start of a new trend. But the finding raises a flag for FAS as it works to increase gender diversity in a faculty where less than 19 percent of 478 tenured professors are women.The report by Lisa L. Martin, the FAS senior adviser on diversity, called the drop a “troubling reversal.” The dramatic fall in women’s acceptances came even though the fraction of tenure-track offers to women rose slightly, to 39 percent, last academic year.“It?...
...took their places. Our professor judges—Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities Homi Bhabha and James F. Rothenberg Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature Diana Sorensen—came with their respective daughters in tow, first-year Cornell undergraduate Leah Bhabha and Lisa K. Goodrich ’07. Former FM cover model Adrienne M. White ’08 and Adam P. Schneider ’07, a former FM associate editor and VP of Lewis Albert Corporation, took their places alongside the profs, and the show began...