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...Lit & Arts c-37 Demand for theological primer bests perennial favorite (see above) in the Core market, We'd take God over Mankiw anyday...
...curtain rose on a large white piece of fabric covering the entire stage and lifted to various heights at different places by cables. Throughout the piece, cables were raised and lowered, and the dancers moved under the fabric. The stage was lit with bright orange light, and the dancers costumed in nude colored unitards, grass skirts, body paint, headbands and feathers. The atmosphere and movement was very tribal, primitive, fast paced and sexual. Despite the primitive appearance, the choreography still has its roots in classical ballet, which resulted in a unique effect...
During this past finals period, while trudging to Lamont with a sourcebook in my backpack and a lit cigarette in one hand (not that I smoke), I paused to glare at the closest thing to me--in this case, a kiosk. Even during this hibernation period of student activities, it was aglow with neon flyers. They all irked me. But what almost sent me over the edge was the way Jennifer Love Hewitt's face smirked at me from one of them...
China has done much to liberalize its economy and its society in the years since I lived in Hong Kong. While the garishly lit skyscrapers of Beijing and Shanghai may mask continuing poverty, China has begun to cast off the worst vestiges of communism. On the international front, Beijing has sometimes been helpful, trying to cool tensions between India and Pakistan, keeping North Korean military ambitions in check and usually abstaining (rather than voting no) on U.N. ballots to use force in the Persian Gulf and the Balkans...
...this narrative isn't the whole of the picture by any means. De Hooch was a master of spatial composition. In his pictures you are never entirely inside or wholly outside. His rooms aren't closed, artificially lit boxes but part of a continuity between the inner and outer worlds, revealing the truth of both under the benison of natural light. In this painting the rectangles of the brown room with its wide wallboards and alcove bed open backward into stages of increasing light. The window casts a bright lozenge of sun on the worn tiles of the floor beyond...